From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
11 July 1862
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Lowell Autograph File 83)
Summary:
Sends additional notes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Sends additional notes.
Relates death of H. G. Bronn.
Discusses publication of German edition of Orchids [1862].
Thanks for answers to CD’s questions; would appreciate any new information on similarity of moths of distinct races.
CD has been "atrociously abused by religious countrymen, but it does not hurt except when it comes from an old friend like Prof. Owen".
Wishes French translator of Origin had known more natural history.
Their views on transformism differ a great deal, as CD says, but perhaps not as much as CD thinks. Sending his [Physiologie comparée: métamorphoses de l’homme et des animaux (1862)].