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To Williams & Norgate   [before 4 September 1880]1

[Down.]

(Comparative Embryology by F. M. Balfour) (Macmillan & Co)

(The Brain as an Organ of Mind by Dr. Bastian (Kegan Paul & Co))2

When the Translation of Semper’s book on Biology in the International Series comes out, please send it3

C. Darwin

incomplete?

1
This note was sold as part of a collection of items from CD to Williams & Norgate; CD regularly purchased books from the firm. The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to F. M. Balfour, 4 September 1880.
2
The first volume of Balfour 1880–1 was published between 1 and 14 June 1880 (Publishers’ Circular (1880): 453). Bastian 1880, by Henry Charlton Bastian, was published between 16 and 31 May 1880 (ibid., p. 415). CD’s copies of both works are in the Darwin Library–Down.
3
Semper 1881, by Carl Gottfried Semper, was published by C. Kegan Paul & Co. as volume 31 of the International Scientific Series; CD’s copy is the Darwin Library–CUL. CD had read proof-sheets of the German edition (Semper 1880; see Correspondence vol. 27, letter to C. G. Semper, 2 October 1879).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.1 (Comparative … Balfour)] square brackets in ms
2.1 (The … Co))] after del ‘Bastian’; square brackets in ms

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12390F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12390F