From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
13 May 1864
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 59)
Summary:
Oxalis plants have arrived safely [see 4347].
CD regrets his mistake about Disa; will correct it.
Thanks RT for his additional facts about Disa.
Is recovering slowly from ten months’ illness.
Asks whether Strelitzia reginae grows in gardens at the Cape. Suspects it must be fertilised by a bird.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project