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Darwin Correspondence Project

From J. D. Hooker   2 September 1872

Royal Gardens Kew

Sept 2/72

Dear Darwin

Our Drosera Capensis is quite at your service & we shall be glad to see Lettington whenever convenient—1 We have no other species— Have you asked Wilson Saunders or shall I.—2 My man who was there last week saw none there

Ever yours affec | J D Hooker

Footnotes

William Wilson Saunders had a notable collection of exotic plant specimens at his home at Hillfield, Reigate, Surrey (ODNB).

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

Summary

Kew’s Drosera capensis is at CD’s service.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-8505
From
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Kew
Source of text
DAR 103: 120
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8505,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8505.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20

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