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To Eduard Strasburger   8 August 1880

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

August 8th 1880

Dear Sir

I thank you cordially for your extreme kindness in having sent me your grand work on the formation & division of cells.1 I never saw anything so beautiful as the Plates, & with what wonderful profusion your work is illustrated!—

With much respect, I remain, Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin

1
Strasburger sent the third edition of Über Zellbildung und Zelltheilung (On cell formation and cell division; Strasburger 1880); he had sent the second edition and a French translation of the first edition in 1876 (Strasburger 1876a and Strasburger 1876b; see Correspondence vol. 24, letter to Eduard Strasburger, 9 December [1876] and n. 2). CD’s copies of the books are in the Darwin Library–Down.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added
1.2 on] ‘o’ over ‘of’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12683F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12683F