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.