To J. D. Hooker 5 [December 1863]
Summary
His bad health continues.
Thirty-two plants have come up from the earth attached to partridge’s foot.
Origin to be published in Italian.
Owen was wrong: Origin will not be forgotten in ten years.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 [Dec 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 213 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4353 |
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To J. D. Hooker 2 July [1870]
Summary
Thanks JDH for offer of lilies.
The paper on orchids is by Hermann Müller [Verh. Naturhist. Ver. Preuss. Rheinlande & Westphalens 25 (1868): 1–62], on Platanthera and Epipactis.
Cites another work by P. Rohrbach [Über den Blüthenbau (1866)].
MS [of Descent] ready for printer.
Has read Bentham’s last Linnean Society [Presidential] Address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1870): lxxiv–xciv] with great interest.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 2 July [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 175–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7261 |
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- … H. Müller 1868 ). CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. CD refers to Paul Rohrbach’s monograph on the structure and fertilisation of Epipogium gmelini (now E. aphyllum , the ghost orchid; Rohrbach 1866 ). CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. CD visited London from 24 June to 1 July 1870, …
