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To F. J. Cohn   [30 June 1875]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. [Abinger Hall, Surrey.]

My dear Sir

As you expressed a wish to have an early copy of my book on Insectivorous Plants, I have told my publisher to send you one of the first copies, & you will soon receive it.2 I hope that you will think that I have referred to your admirable papers with the respect which they deserve—3

My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin

LS

1
The date ‘Jun 30th’ was added in a contemporary hand under the printed address. The year is established by the reference to Insectivorous plants (see n. 2, below).
2
See letter from F. J. Cohn, 9 January 1875 and n. 12. Cohn had been asked to write an essay on Insectivorous plants for the journal Deutsche Rundschau. Insectivorous plants was published on 2 July 1875 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).
3
In Insectivorous plants, p. 322, CD wrote that he could add nothing to Cohn’s excellent description of Aldrovanda (the waterwheel plant), and referred frequently to observations made by Cohn in his paper on the bladders of Aldrovanda and Utricularia (bladderwort; Cohn 1875a).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10037A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10037A