From J. D. Hooker 1 July 1874
Royal Gardens Kew
July 1/1874
Dear Darwin
Do not bother yourself about the health of the plants— they are quite forgotten I assure you!— only if you care to have any nursed, pray send them here for your purpose, not for our’s.1
I should much like to go to Down for a Sunday— might I go on Saturday 11th if nothing prevents?2
Nepenthes I have quite given the slip to; & I do not think that Dyer ever examined the bits of eggs that I last hung in the pitchers— I am however really getting a plant up in an enclosure for special observation, where it cannot be interfered with3
I have splendid Sarracenias4 & will perform any miracle you put me up to regarding them.
I am charmed with your account of Pinguicula: & should like to try if Lychnis viscosa has the same use for its viscid fluid— which I should have guessed was to prevent insects climbing up to the Flower— but all these things now go by contraries!—5
I have written for English Utricularia for you.6
I have had a deal to do of late, & in hand so no more from
Yours ever affec | J D Hooker.
Footnotes
Summary
Has "given the slip" to Nepenthes, but is setting a plant up in an enclosure for special observation.
Has some splendid Sarracenia and will perform any miracle regarding them CD puts him up to.
Charmed with CD’s account of Pinguicula. Would like to try whether Lychnis has the same use of viscid fluid.
Has written for English Utricularia for CD.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9526
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 103: 200–1
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9526,” accessed on 21 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9526.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22