From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 205
Summary:
Sends a box of orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Sends a box of orchids.
Encloses letter from H. B. Geinitz, who declines to handle translation of new edition of Origin. Recommends Julius Victor Carus. Also suggests Gustav von Leonhard as translator for Origin.
Discusses translation of Variation.
Gives CD genus and species names of the singular humming-bird; distressed by specific name made necessary by revised laws of nomenclature.
Mogg [John Traherne Moggridge] wants to visit CD.
Self-fertilising orchids.