To Thomas Salt 9 February [1861]
Summary
Asks for advice about the mortgage to Major Owen for £20,000.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3061F |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 9 February 1861]
Summary
Discusses the possible explanation of why fly-orchid plants in a correspondent’s garden had no pollen-masses removed while Orchis maculata had all of its pollen-masses removed. CD points out that different orchids are fertilised by different insects. The insects needed to fertilise the fly-orchid may not have inhabited the site of the correspondent’s garden.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [before 9 Feb 1861] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 9 February 1861, p. 122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3061 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Addressee
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
| Salt, Thomas | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
| Salt, Thomas | (1) |
