From J. D. Hooker [7 April 1862]1
Royal Gardens Kew
Dr. Darwin
I shall I hope be able to send you Vanilla Flowers in a day or two.—2 How are you after your tremendous effect on the placid Linnæans?3
Ever yrs affec | J D Hooker
Kew Monday.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Orchids: On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862.
‘Three sexual forms of Catasetum tridentatum’: On the three remarkable sexual forms of Catasetum tridentatum, an orchid in the possession of the Linnean Society. By Charles Darwin. [Read 3 April 1862.] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Botany) 6 (1862): 151–7. [Collected papers 2: 63–70.]
Summary
Will hope to be able to send Vanilla flowers in a day or two.
How is CD after his tremendous effect on the placid Linneans? ["Sexual forms of Catasetum", Collected papers 2: 63–70; read 3 Apr 1862.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3495
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 101: 32
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3495,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3495.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10
