From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
21 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 149
Summary:
Thanks HGB [for his Morphologische Studien (1858)].
Pleased at quickness of translation.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
10 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 150
Summary:
Has received copies of translation of Origin. Thanks HGB for undertaking it.
Comments on review by F. J. Pictet ["Sur l’origine de l’espèce, par Charles Darwin: analyse et critique",Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. n.s. 7 (1860): 231–55].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
14 July [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 151
Summary:
Responds to HGB’s critique of Origin [appended to German translation of Origin]. Comments on English reviews.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
5 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Answers HGB’s criticism of Origin.
Explains HGB’s case of differences in rats by adaptation.
CD’s view explains homological and embryological resemblances of each type.
Does not believe all development is at same rate. Cites Australian forms.
Does not see force of objection that origin of life must be explained.
Asks if C. L. Brehm’s subspecies of birds are really characteristic of regions of Germany.
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From:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 or 15] Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 317
Summary:
Does not remember his criticisms of CD’s theory. Can CD locate them in book?
Criticises analogy between knowledge of electricity and knowledge of origin of life.
Explains A. E. Brehm’s concept of subspecies. Discusses subspecies of Certhia.
Contributor:
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From:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 11 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 319
Summary:
Asks if CD will have corrections for 2d German ed. of Origin.
CD’s theory only natural way to explain creation but contradicts current knowledge about origin of life from inorganic matter.
Has read Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63] with interest.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
11 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 153
Summary:
Pleased that new German edition of Origin is wanted. Wishes to make corrections.
Suggests German translation of Orchids.
Comments on HGB’s book [Untersuchungen (1858)].
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From:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 320
Summary:
CD can add revisions since he cannot begin work on 2d German ed. of Origin until May.
Schweizerbart wants to publish translation of Orchids. Asks for woodcuts for illustrations.
Contributor:
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From:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 321
Summary:
Thanks for revisions in 2d ed. of Origin. Suggests correction regarding species numbers in the Tertiary.
Comments on pages of Orchids and problems of German translation.
Believes CD’s theory not yet proven, but that it will finally lead to truth.
Contributor:
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From:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 70: 2, DAR 160.3: 318
Summary:
L. C. Treviranus inclined to translate Orchids, but "unfortunately" HGB has already done it. Book’s discussion of plant sexuality important for zoology as well as botany.
Origin is in press. Attaches a list of "quelques petites difficultées" encountered in his translation.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
30 June [1862]
Source of text:
Bronn trans. 1862; DAR 143: 155; Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Lowell Autograph File 83)
Summary:
Encloses answers and corrections [concerning Orchids]. Thanks HGB for translating it.
Contributor:
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