To J. D. Hooker 22 [March 1862]1
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My dear Hooker
This is the last time, I fully believe, that I shall trouble you to correct names of two Calanthes.—2 I wrote to you at Ld. Powis’.3 I suppose you forwarded to me this morning a note from Asa Gray:4 it contained nothing, but ends “Yours cordially” so I hope to Heaven I am forgiven.—
My Catasetum paper is to be read by me on April 3d. I have had some diagrams made.—5
I am so consumedly sick of correcting my orchid Book.— | Farewell. C. Darwin
The plants & seeds arrived all safe & will be of greatest use; especially Lythrum, which seems from Vaucher a grand case of Trimorphism.—6 What sort of man is Vaucher? I have just got 4 awful vols.— phys. Hist. of Plants of Europe.—7
Footnotes
Bibliography
Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.
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.
Vaucher, Jean Pierre Etienne. 1841. Histoire physiologique des plantes d’Europe ou exposition des phénomènes qu’elles présentent dans les diverses périodes de leur développement. 4 vols. Paris: Marc Aurel Frères.
Summary
Asks JDH to correct names of two species of Calanthe.
Note from Asa Gray ends "Yours cordially", so CD hopes he is forgiven.
His Catasetum paper will be read 3 Apr [Collected papers 2: 63–70].
Plants and seeds sent will be of great use, especially Lythrum, which according to J. P. E. Vaucher seems grand case of trimorphism. Asks what sort of man Vaucher is.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3481
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 115: 146
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3481,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3481.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10