To J. D. Hooker 11 October [1861]
Down.
Oct 11th.
My dear Hooker
Mr Veitch most generously has sent me 2 splendid buds of Mormodes, which will be capital for dissection but I fear will never be irritable;1 so for the sake of charity & love of Heaven do, I beseech you, observe what movement takes place in Cychnodes & what part must be touched.2 Mr. V. has also sent me one splendid flower of Catasetum, the most wonderful orchid I have seen: Sowerby has made capital sketches, but I have not yet ventured to touch it.—
Did you or Oliver not tell me that your Mr Crocker3 had made some observations on movement either of Catasetum or Mormodes? They wd. be very useful to me.—
Ever yours | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
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
Orchid anatomy: movement in Mormodes column.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3281
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 115: 117
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3281,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3281.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9
