From:
Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 230
Summary:
Sends annual cheque for Down parish charities.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Sends annual cheque for Down parish charities.
ED writes on behalf of her husband, who is ill, to thank FH for his letter
and to thank [L. C.] Treviranus for his paper on orchids.
CD wishes to know whether Orchis pyramidalis grows in FH’s neighbourhood. He needs a fresh specimen to compare the stigma with those grown locally.
Thanks for sending him his essay on the yard, pendulum and metre. Hopes it will engage the attention of the public. A measure of 50" would be very convenient.