To J. D. Hooker 27 [December 1861]
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27.
My dear Hooker
Lindley has sent me a Gongora, so do not trouble yourself.—1 He says that Acropera luteola is in no Book & that except in colour it resembles A. Loddigesii, so I will insert a note.—2
Will you be so kind as to write on scrap of paper & put in enclosed Envelope the name & address of whoever arranges & settles about your Flues & Heating Apparatus for Hot-Houses at Kew.— Mr C. has asked me to find out, as he wants for some experiments about Gas to get a large chamber heated very equally night & day.—3
I will write soon.— I write now merely to save you wasting time over Acropera & Gongora.—
Ever yours | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Orchids: On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862.
Summary
Seeks information on heating hothouses night and day.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3351
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 115: 138
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3351,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3351.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9
