To Édouard Heckel 19 February 1877

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Feb 19. 1877

Dear Sir

An error of considerable importance has just been detected in my ‘Cross & Self-Fertilisation’ arising from an unfortunate misprint.—

P. 275 line 6 from top of page instead of ‘self-fertilised’ read ‘crossed’¹

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

Heckel was translating Cross and self fertilisation into French (Heckel trans. 1877). CD later countermanded the correction; see Correspondence vol. 25, letter to Édouard Heckel, 4 March 1877. For the source of the original correction, see ibid., letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle, 19 February [1877].

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10852F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10852F

Summary

Sends correction to p. 275 of Cross and self fertilisation [but see letter to Édouard Heckel, 4 March 1877].

Record number: DCP-LETT-10852F
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel
Date: 19 Feb 1877
Sent from: Down
Source of text: Aguttes (dealers) An Aristophil sale (17 November 2019, lot 43)
Physical description: 1p

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 30-Supplement.