To Otto Zacharias   5 October [1876]

Oct. 5th—

Many thanks for your friendly letter.— I am away from home, but have written there to send you the 4 first sheets just printed, & tomorrow I will send 3 others.—1 You shall have remainder as soon as printed. The book is a very dull one, but I think has some value. All the first chapters are mere record of experiments.—The latter chapters alone worth reading. Your news about the Album deeply gratifying to me, but Häckel says I ought not to have been told.2

C. Darwin

ApcS

Postmark: OC 5 76

1
Zacharias had requested the proof-sheets of Cross and self fertilisation in order to review the book for German journals (see letter from Otto Zacharias, 2 October 1876).
2
On the German photograph album, see the letter from Otto Zacharias, 2 October 1876 and n. 3. Ernst Haeckel visited CD at Down on 26 September 1876 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10632,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10632