From George Henslow 24 October 1876
7 Bentinck Terrace | Regents Park | N.W
Oct 24 76
My dear Sir,
I beg to thank you very sincerely for your kind letter, & for the offer of your book, which I shall be proud to accept & have great pleasure in reading.1 I am much obliged for yr. remarks about the temperature affecting the protandry & protogyny of flowers, & I will observe, next year, with special reference to this fact.2
With reference to “dwarfed” flowers: as I stated in my paper; I, at present, do not feel justified in doing more than “suspecting”; as I have had no opportunity of protecting such flowers, nor of seeing whether they produce much fruit, like the regularly self-fertilising species.—
I have to thank you for kindly enquiring after my health. I am happy to say I now enjoy excellent health tho’ paralysis still lingers in a mild form.3
Believe me to be | yrs very faithfully | George Henslow
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Cross and self fertilisation: The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876.
Summary
Thanks for CD’s book [Cross and self-fertilisation] and information on protandry and protogyny.
Health better, but paralysis lingers.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10652
- From
- George Henslow
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Bentinck Terrace, 7
- Source of text
- DAR 166: 174
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10652,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10652.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24
