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DCP-LETT-3666

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 July [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 159
Summary:

Illness of his son [Leonard]. Has done no work for weeks.

JDH’s hybrid orchids are interesting; CD is surprised many hybrids are not produced.

George [Darwin] caught a moth sucking Gymnadenia conopsea with a pollen-mass of Habenaria bifolia sticking to it.

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DCP-LETT-3667

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 July [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (75)
Summary:

AG’s "capital" review of Orchids [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 138–44].

Thinks there are three forms of Lythrum salicaria.

Discusses transport of seeds by sea.

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DCP-LETT-3670F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Obadiah Westwood
Date:
30 July 1862
Source of text:
Washington University in St Louis Libraries, Special Collections (tipped into Orchids QK926.D259 1862)
Summary:

Asks JOW if he can see bee with pollen masses, and gives details for sending it by post or rail.

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DCP-LETT-3702

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
29 [July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 55 (EH 88206038)
Summary:

Cares more for dimorphism now than for orchids. Today saw the three forms of Lythrum, which means there should be 18 different practicable crosses.

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