From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12–13 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 202
Summary:
Doubts Decaisne’s report of larkspur self-fertilisation.
Enthusiastically observes climbing plants. Needs to know how novel his observations are. Finds R. J. H. Dutrochet has made similar observations, so he has wasted some time. [See Climbing plants, p. 1 n.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project