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From J. D. Hooker   [17 May 1862]1

Royal Gardens Kew | Kew

Saturday

My dear Darwin

I have been at the red Leschenaultia this morning.2 Not the same species as last year. I find no stigmatic surface whatever in the indusium—but as before a hard dense very unstigmatic tissue under the glandular surface. No pollen tubes any-where. A very stigmatic tissue underlies a pulvinus within the indusium at b but it is covered perfectly with cuticle.3

diagram

4

Best paper for drying plants can be got at Pamplin 45 Frith Street Soho London.5

Ask Ross for the simple microscope price £4"4 which Dr Hooker orders. his address is Featherstone buildings Holborn6

Bentham & Oliver are quite struck up in a heap with your book & delighted beyond expression7

CD annotations

4.1 Bentham … expression 4.2] crossed pencil
Top of first page: ‘Red Leschenaultia not formosa’8 pencil; ‘West Strand Eye glass’ pencil, del pencil; ‘Address for Paper’ pencil, del pencil
Diagram: ‘A Red Leschenaultia not formosa.’ pencil

Footnotes

1
Dated by the relationship to other correspondence with Hooker concerning Leschenaultia (see n. 2, below) and by reference to the publication of Orchids (see n. 7, below); 17 May 1862 fell on a Saturday.
2
See letters to J. D. Hooker, 1 May [1862], 9 May [1862], and 15 [May 1862], and letters from J. D. Hooker, [5 May 1862] and [16 May 1862].
4
The diagram has been reduced to 65% of its original size.
5
See letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 [May 1862]. Hooker refers to the botanical bookseller William Pamplin (Post Office London directory 1861).
6
The reference is to the London optician and instrument-maker Thomas Ross (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 [May 1862] and n. 5).

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.

Post Office London directory: Post-Office annual directory. … A list of the principal merchants, traders of eminence, &c. in the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent … general and special information relating to the Post Office. Post Office London directory. London: His Majesty’s Postmaster-General [and others]. 1802–1967.

Summary

Discusses Leschenaultia, finds no stigmatic surface in the indusium.

Gives information on where to obtain paper for drying plants and where to obtain a microscope.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-3527
From
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Kew
Source of text
DAR 261.11: 28 (EH 88206079)
Physical description
inc † sketch

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3527,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3527.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10

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