To William Ogle 7 July [1869]1
Caerdeon, Barmouth | N. Wales
July 7th
My dear Sir
You must let me write half-a-dozen words to say how much I admire your paper on Salvia.2 It seems to me excellently worked out, & contains much that is new. I shd. have committed a heavy sin, if I had been the means of stopping its publication.—3
I suspect that that the Salvia with shorter pistil will prove merely an arrested form, for, as far as my experience goes, it is not likely that two such wonderful means, as complex mechanical contrivances & Dimorphism, shd have been co-used for the same end.—4
Judging from what I know occurs with some plants, for instance Verbascum, I apprehend that the Malvaceæ, which do not secrete nectar, are visited by pollen-collecting Bees.—5
I congratulate you on publishing so striking a paper & remain, My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
I am not certain of your private address, & have not here any address-book.—6
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Ogle, William. 1869. The fertilisation of Salvia and of some other flowers. Popular Science Review 8: 261–73.
‘Specific difference in Primula’: On the specific difference between Primula veris, Brit. Fl. (var. officinalis of Linn.), P. vulgaris, Brit. Fl. (var. acaulis, Linn.), and P. elatior, Jacq.; and on the hybrid nature of the common oxlip. With supplementary remarks on naturally produced hybrids in the genus Verbascum. By Charles Darwin. [Read 19 March 1868.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 10 (1869): 437–54.
Summary
Comments on WO’s paper on Salvia [Pop. Sci. Rev. 8 (1869): 261–73], which he admires.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6818
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Ogle
- Sent from
- Caerdeon
- Source of text
- DAR 261.5: 3 (EH 88205901)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6818,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6818.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17