From J. D. Hooker 17 September 1869
Royal Gardens Kew
Sept 17 /69
Dear Darwin
I see nothing to prevent my being with you on afternoon of tomorrow week—to wh. I look forward—
Thanks for the supplementary which I shall quote in the Brit. Fl.1
Ever yrs | J D Hooker
The Dutch could not come through illness in family.2
Footnotes
Bibliography
‘Fertilization of orchids’: Notes on the fertilization of orchids. By Charles Darwin. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4th ser. 4 (1869): 141–59. [Collected papers 2: 138–56.]
Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1870. The student’s flora of the British Islands. London: Macmillan.
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.
Summary
Will come to Down on 25 Sept.
Thanks CD for supplementaries ["Fertilization of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56] which he will quote in the British flora [The student’s flora of the British Islands (1870)].
F. A. W. Miquel could not come.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6895
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 103: 32–3
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6895,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6895.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
