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To R. D. Fitzgerald   6 September 1877

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)

Sept. 6th. 1877

Dear Sir

I must have the pleasure of once again thanking you for another number of your magnificent work on Australian Orchids.— The case of Orthoceras is indeed a very remarkable one.—1

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

1
Fitzgerald’s Australian orchids (Fitzgerald 1875–94) was published in parts, beginning in July 1875. CD had received the first two parts from Fitzgerald in 1875 and 1876 (see Correspondence vol. 23, letter to R. D. Fitzgerald, 16 July 1875, and Correspondence vol. 24, letter to R. D. Fitzgerald, 18 August [1876]). The third part, published in June 1877, included an account of the apparently self-fertilising Orthocerus strictum (horned orchid); CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–CUL.

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Fitzgerald, Robert David. 1875–94. Australian orchids. 2 vols. Sydney: Thomas Richards.

Summary

Thanks for another part of Australian orchids.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-11130
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Robert David Fitzgerald
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 2546)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11130,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11130.xml

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