From J. D. Hooker 8 July 1874
Royal Gardens Kew
July 8/74
Dear Darwin
I shall leave Charing X by the 4..12: for Orpington (I suppose)1 The apetite of Nepenthes for hard-boiled egg is prodigious.2
Yours ever | J D Hooker
Footnotes
Hooker visited CD on 11 July 1874 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Orpington was the closest railway station to Down House.
Hooker had recently resumed his experimental work on the tropical pitcher-plant, Nepenthes (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 3 July 1874 and n. 1).
Summary
The appetite of Nepenthes for hard-boiled egg is prodigious.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9537
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 103: 204–5
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9537,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9537.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
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