From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 123
Summary:
Orchid anatomy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Orchid anatomy.
Orchid homologies.
Sensitive responses in Catasetum.
Acropera becoming clear.
T. F. Jamieson impressed by JDH’s work on Himalayan glaciers.
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.
Will send the Nautical Almanac to Smith, Elder and Co. Is pleased they agree on the naming of the asteroids. Gives readings for the approaching transit of Mercury.
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