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From Daniel Oliver   18 February 1864

Royal Gardens Kew

18 Feby. 1864

My dear Mr Darwin

I strongly think that Crüger’s valuable paper shd. appear in the Linnean Socy’s Journal.1 I think N. H. R. wd. interfere were it to take possession of it.2

I shall therefore send it to Mr. Bentham3 as comd. by you.— First, however, I must read it myself

Yours very Sincerely | Danl. Oliver

Footnotes

1
In his letter to Daniel Oliver of 17 February [1864], CD enclosed the paper sent by Hermann Crüger in his letter of 21 January 1864. It was published in the Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) (Crüger 1864).
2
Oliver was one of the editors of the Natural History Review.
3
George Bentham was the president of the Linnean Society.

Bibliography

Crüger, Hermann. 1864. A few notes on the fecundation of orchids and their morphology. [Read 3 March 1864.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 8 (1865): 127–35.

Summary

Thinks the paper by H. Crüger should appear in the Journal of the Linnean Society.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-4411
From
Daniel Oliver
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Kew
Source of text
DAR 173: 26
Physical description
ALS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4411,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4411.xml

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

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