To Ray Society [before 4 November 1864]¹

1118 Read a letter from M^r Darwin suggesting the Translation of Gaertner’s work on “Bastardezeugung”²

The letter has not been found, but see the enclosure to the letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 September [1864]. The text given here has been taken from the minutes of the special council meeting of the Ray Society, 4 November 1864. William John Hamilton chaired the meeting. Also present were Joseph Beck, Michael Pakenham Edgeworth, William Henry Flower, Samuel James Augustus Salter, William Sharpey, Henry Tibbats Stainton, and James Tennant.

The reference is to Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich by Karl Friedrich von Gärtner (Gärtner 1849). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 September [1864] and n. 6.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-4654,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-4654

Summary

"Read a letter from Mr Darwin suggesting the Translation of Gaertner’s work [Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich (1849)]."

Record number: DCP-LETT-4654
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: Ray Society
Date: [before 4 Nov 1864]
Sent from: unstated
Source of text: Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY A: vol. 2, p. 102r: Minute 1118, 4^th November 1864)

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12.