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Darwin Correspondence Project

To J. D. Hooker   4 November [1879]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington, S.E.R.

Nov— 4th.

My dear Hooker

All the acorns have dropped off my Cork-tree unripe. Will you therefore be so very kind as to do what you offered viz send by enclosed address a young tree of Quercus rubra or coccinea (whichever species is the handsomest) to be planted in my honour!2

Ever yours | C. Darwin

Pray thank Dyer for his full answer about Lunularia.—3

Footnotes

The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to Victor Marshall, 14 September 1879.
CD had hoped to send acorns from a cork oak tree to Victor Marshall as a memorial of his visit (see letter to Victor Marshall, 14 September 1879). Quercus rubra is northern red oak; Quercus coccinea is scarlet oak.
In his letter of 31 October 1879, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer had identified a specimen as Lunularia vulgaris (a synonym of L. cruciata, crescent-cup liverwort).

Summary

Wants seedling of Quercus rubra or Q. coccinea.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-12290
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 191)
Physical description
ALS 1p †

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12290,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12290.xml

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