To Arthur Henfrey   17 March [1855]1

Down Farnborough Kent

March 17th

My dear Sir

Will you forgive my troubling you & give me if in your power a piece of information. In Braun’s Rejuvenescence2 p. 312 of your translation, there is a reference in note to “Godron de l’Espece et des Races”.3 I have in vain by Booksellers & others endeavoured to find out what this is, whether published separately or in some periodical. Again at p. 317 is it meant (in note) that there is extract of Hornsuch4 in the Flora of 1848; for if so I cd. then get the correct title for I have failed likewise in procuring this work. If you can give me any information by looking to the original German, I shd. be very much obliged & hope that you will kindly forgive my having troubled you.—

Pray believe me | My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin

1
Dated by the relationship to letter from J. D. Hooker, [before 7 March 1855], and letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 March [1855], in which CD asks about Godron 1848–9.
2
Henfrey had translated Alexander Carl Heinrich Braun’s Rejuvenescence included in Botanical and physiological memoirs published by the Ray Society (Henfrey ed. 1853). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 25 August 1854, and letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 September [1854], in which Braun 1853b was discussed.
4
Friedrich Hornschuch, whose paper on the sporting of plants appeared in the journal Flora (Hornschuch 1848). CD cited the paper in Natural selection, pp. 102, 127.

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