From George King 18 December 1874
Royal Botanical Garden, | Ilowrah, | near Calcutta.
The 18 Dec 1874
My Dear Sir,
Yours of the 20th has reached me just in time to let me reply by today’s mail.1 I have much pleasure in enclosing 3 specimens of Aldrovanda verticillata Roxb. from a jheel S. of Calcutta which I hope may reach you in time for your purpose.2
Thanks, I am very well now. I hope you are better.
Believe me in much haste | yrs sincerely | George King
C. Darwin Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
Hobson-Jobson: Hobson-Jobson. A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive. By Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell. New edition edited by William Crooke. London: John Murray. 1903.
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Summary
Sends three specimens of Aldrovanda verticillata.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9763
- From
- George King
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- R. Bot. Gard., Calcutta
- Source of text
- DAR 58.1: 111
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9763,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9763.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22