From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 21 June 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 173.2: 52
Summary:
Sad that CD is quitting his studies of orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Sad that CD is quitting his studies of orchids.
Yesterday found hundreds of [Ophrys] apifera and [Ophrys] arachnites in bloom in the same area. The two species grow in clumps and do not mix with each other.
L. C. Treviranus inclined to translate Orchids, but "unfortunately" HGB has already done it. Book’s discussion of plant sexuality important for zoology as well as botany.
Origin is in press. Attaches a list of "quelques petites difficultées" encountered in his translation.