From J. V. Carus   17 April 1875

My dear Sir

Within the next few days you will receive the concluding part of my Zoology, for which I ask a kind acceptance¹

I am now busily engaged in translating a new your Journal.² I need scarcely to say that the work gives me again an extraordinary delight, and I think I never enjoyed a work more than this   Will you kindly excuse my asking you two questions? On p. 148 (about the middle of the page) you say: “Hence it is very hazardous to attempt to drive cattle at this season of the year; for when jaded enough to face the thistles, they rush among them.” Should this perhaps be “goaded”? For, when they are “jaded”, they would not “rush”. Then again p. 173. l. 13–14 from top: “This relationship is shown wonderfully—as wonderfully as between the fossil and extinct Marsupial animals.” Of course it must be “fossil and living” or “recent and extinct.”

Then, please look on p. 346 and read that betting affair. The miners must have overheard what the owner was talking with his friend   But even then I cannot make out, what you mean by: “the miner by this means watched the very point”. Of course the betting on the race was sham    But, if the miner brought the silver ore to his master, this would have lost his bet, as he would not have been robbed.³ I beg your pardon for being perhaps too scrupulous; but although this place reads quite easily, if one reads the book only, yet it becomes exceedingly hard, if one tries to translate it.

It gave me great pleasure to hear that you have delivered a public lecture during the last weeks   I conclude therefore that your health is pretty fair now.⁴

Believe me | My dear Sir | Yours most truly, | J. Victor Carus