To John Lindley 18 October [1861]
Summary
Thanks JL for identifying Catasetum saccatum.
Writes of his interest ("more than almost anything in my life") in orchids, but fears he is rash to publish.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lindley |
Date: | 18 Oct [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 193) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3289 |
To John Lindley 25 October [1861]
Summary
Sends thanks for an informative letter;
would be grateful for any orchids; names some he would particularly like.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lindley |
Date: | 25 Oct [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 194) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3299 |
To John Lindley 1 November [1861]
Summary
CD is sending an orchid flower; asks JL to identify it.
Also asks if JL can spare a dried flower of another orchid (name forgotten) [which CD describes] so that he can try to trace its ducts or spiral vessels.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lindley |
Date: | 1 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 195) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3306 |
To John Lindley 16 November [1861]
Summary
CD sends thanks for many valuable dried specimens [of orchids]. Has been promised Catasetum and some Dendrobium by Mr Rucker; has written also to Lady Dorothy [Nevill].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lindley |
Date: | 16 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 196) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3321 |
To John Lindley 17 November [1861]
Summary
Lady Dorothy [Nevill] has written very obligingly and sent a lot of orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lindley |
Date: | 17 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 197) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3323 |
To John Lindley 15 December [1861]
Summary
Thanks JL for a flower of Bolbophyllum, a genus that puzzles him.
Recent work has convinced him a number of orchids are male. Points out that JL [in The vegetable kingdom (1846), pp. 177–8] "accidentally misquoted" R. H. Schomburgk on this point.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lindley |
Date: | 15 Dec [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 198) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3344 |
To John Lindley 24 December [1861]
Summary
Delayed thanking JL for two notes until he heard from Hooker about Acropera luteola; had no idea A. luteola was not a well-known name.
Cites his reasons for identifying A. loddigesii as male; hopes for a Gongora flower from Hooker which, JL suggested, may be the female.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lindley |
Date: | 24 Dec [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 199) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3350 |
To John Lindley 28 December [1861]
Summary
Thanks JL for information about Acropera luteola.
Also thanks for the Gongora; cannot avoid the impression it is male.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lindley |
Date: | 28 Dec [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 200) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3353 |