To Daniel Oliver 3 November [1861]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Nov 3d
Dear Oliver
I thank you most sincerely for all the references.2 Good Heavens how do you know such multitudinous references! It is a horrid bore, that I shall probably find all my recent work done & done better than I have.— Anyhow I have enjoyed the work. If you had not told me these references how nicely you might have reviewed. “disgraceful ignorance” “highly presumptuous” &c &c—3
I heartily thank you, though I expect to be heartily disgusted with the papers, when I get them. from Linn. Society.—4
Please thank Hooker for information about Dendrobium Chrysanthum;5 & say that I shd. be very glad of a Cypripedium to have a look at the ducts of Labellum—6
Yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin
If Hooker sends any more orchids I shd like one more head of Eveylina carivata on account of its curious nectary.—7
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks for "multitudinous" references.
Thanks Hooker for orchids.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4329
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Daniel Oliver
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 261.10: 52 (EH 88206035)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4329,” accessed on 6 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4329.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13 (Supplement)