To J. D. Hooker 13 April [1865]
Down
April 13th
My dear Hooker.
Here is a pretty thing, the Strelitzia has arrived safely this morning (specific name not given) but no Books & Bottle from Thwaites.1 I hope they are not lost, but if so of course I will make good the Bot. Zeitung.—2
I shall be glad to hear news before very long of your Father: Bronchitis at near 80 is very serious.—3
Yours affect | C. Darwin
Your note received this morning made me laugh— I hope my judgment about the Origin is as good & unfailing as yours about your own papers!4
It is worth while to pass your little finger, like a Birds beak, parallel to stamens of Strelitzia, as if to enter within the little petal at the base for nectar,, & see how neatly the two other oddly shaped blue petals open & expose pollen.—5
Footnotes
Bibliography
Alefeld, Friedrich Christoph Wilhelm. 1860. Ueber Pisum. Botanische Zeitung 18: 204–5.
Summary
Strelitzia has arrived
but no books or bottles from G. H. K. Thwaites.
Hopes his own judgment about Origin is as good as Hooker’s about his own papers.
Strelitzia’s neat mechanism for exposing pollen.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4813
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 115: 266
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4813,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4813.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13
