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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 120
Summary:

Orchid anatomy. Movements of labellum.

Repeating Gärtner’s experiment with Verbascum varieties.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
18 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 193)
Summary:

Thanks JL for identifying Catasetum saccatum.

Writes of his interest ("more than almost anything in my life") in orchids, but fears he is rash to publish.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project