From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 135
Summary:
Rudimentary ovules of Acropera.
High opinion of Bates.
Orchid anatomy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Rudimentary ovules of Acropera.
High opinion of Bates.
Orchid anatomy.
Henri Lecoq’s miserable book on plant geography [Étude sur la géographie botanique de l’Europe (1854–8)].
H. W. Bates’s pleasure at meeting JDH.
Lindley suggests Gongora may be female Acropera.
CD’s orchid book nearly ready for press.
Discovers trimorphism in Lythrum is in H. Lecoq [Études sur la géographie botanique de l’Europe (1854–8)].
Seeks information on heating hothouses night and day.
Gongora cannot be female of Acropera; it may itself be a male.
Hopes Daniel Oliver will "sink Atlantis" in his Royal Institution lecture.
Asks JDH to arrange for some melastomads to be sent to him.