i860.] GERMAN TRANSLATION. 277 



remarks. A more serious charge against Bronn made by 

 Krause (pp. cit. p. 8y) is that he left out passages of which he 

 did not approve, as, for instance, the passage (' Origin,' first 

 edition, p. 488) " Light will be thrown on the origin of man 

 and his history." I have no evidence as to whether my 

 father did or did not know of these alterations.] 



C. Darwin to H. G. Bronn. 



Down, Feb. 4 [i860]. 



Dear and much honoured Sir, I thank you sincerely 

 for your most kind letter ; I feared that you would much dis- 

 approve of the * Origin,' and I sent it to you merely as a mark 

 of my sincere respect. I shall read with much interest your 

 work on the productions of Islands whenever I receive it. I 

 thank you cordially for the notice in the ' Neues Jahrbuch 

 fiir Mineralogie,' and still more for speaking to Schweitzerbart 

 about a translation ; for I am most anxious that the great and 

 intellectual German people should know something about my 

 book. 



I have told my publisher to send immediately a copy of 

 the new * edition to Schweitzerbart, and I have written to 

 Schweitzerbart that I give up all right to profit for myself, so 

 that I hope a translation will appear. I fear that the book 

 will be difficult to translate, and if you could advise Schweit- 

 zerbart about a good translator, it would be of very great 

 service. Still more, if you would run your eye over the more 

 difficult parts of the translation ; but this is too great a favour 

 to expect. I feel sure that it will be difficult to translate, 

 from being so much condensed. 



Again I thank you for your noble and generous sympathy, 

 and I remain, with entire respect, 



Yours, truly obliged, 



C. Darwin. 



* Second edition. 



