From Francis Darwin to Daniel Oliver [after 6 January 1875]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Dear Sir
My father desires me to ask you to be so kind as to fill up the enclosed post-card with the locality of Genlisea aurea.2 I removed a small portion of this sp: from the specimens you were so good as to send, but unfortunately made no note of the locality— I see in Steudel U. aurea from Cochin China, & my father thought it would be of interest if this should be the Genlisea.3
Yours truly | Francis Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Steudel, Ernst Gottlieb. 1841. Nomenclator botanicus: seu: synonymia plantarum universalis, enumerans ordine alphabetico nomina atque synonyma, tum generica tum specifica, et a Linnaeo et a recentioribus de re botanica scriptoribus plantis phanerogamis imposita. 2d edition. 2 parts. Stuttgart and Tübingen: J. G. Cotta.
Summary
Asks DO to return enclosed post-card with locality of Genlisea aurea specimen that DO had sent.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9803F
- From
- Francis Darwin
- To
- Daniel Oliver
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/8)
- Physical description
- ALS 1pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9803F,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9803F.xml