To J. D. Hooker 11 December 1876
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Dec 11. 1876
My dear Hooker,
I thank you very much for all the many things which you have done for me.1 The Cinchona is finely dimorphic. The two flowers Asperula scoparia which were sent are not dimorphic, one is female with rudimentary anthers, the other male with quite a small ovary & mere vestiges of stigmas. Nor is the Arnebia dimorphic.2
And now I want to ask two additional favours, and I will choke myself sooner than give any more trouble for some time, though I do not promise for hereafter. If possible I want to know whether the enclosed flowers, sent to me by Fritz Müller under the name Suteria(?) are correctly so named, perhaps it may not be possible to decide without fruit.3
Secondly you will see by the enclosed that I much want flowers of Forsythia.4
Many thanks for the Minutes, which I have been glad to see. I do not think that Günther has behaved quite so badly as you think, as he gives his authority; but undoubtedly he could have reminded government of the claims of the Brit Mus without hinting that Thompson wished to keep the specimens for Edinburgh.5
Again with very many thanks | ever yrs sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Forms of flowers: The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877.
Summary
Plants received from JDH.
Requests he verify an identification by Fritz Müller.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10710
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 95: 427–8
- Physical description
- LS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10710,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10710.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24