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To Gaston de Saporta   22 December 1878

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

December 22d. 1878

My dear Sir

I thank you cordially for sending me your beautiful work “Le Monde des Plantes”,1 which I am sure will interest me greatly, as did your “Végétation Polaire”, which I have just read, & which made so conspicuous a part in Sir J. Hooker’s address lately delivered to our Royal Society.—2

With much respect | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin

1
CD’s copy of Le monde des plantes avant l’apparition de l’homme (The world of plants before the appearance of man; Saporta 1879), is in the Darwin Library–CUL.
2
In his presidential address to the Royal Society of London (Hooker 1878b, pp. 51–4), Joseph Dalton Hooker had discussed Saporta’s work L’ancienne végétation polaire (Ancient polar vegetation; Saporta 1877b) in detail. CD’s copy of Saporta 1877b is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11803,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11803