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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
10 [May 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 219.10: 11
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
No summary available.
Mogg [John Traherne Moggridge] wants to visit CD.
Self-fertilising orchids.
Asks for the name of a hummingbird.
The apparent difference in arm lengths of compositors is due to a drooping shoulder. File-makers stand in a peculiar position and call one of their legs the hind leg.
Sends a box of orchids.
Encloses letter from H. B. Geinitz, who declines to handle translation of new edition of Origin. Recommends Julius Victor Carus. Also suggests Gustav von Leonhard as translator for Origin.
Discusses translation of Variation.
Gives CD genus and species names of the singular humming-bird; distressed by specific name made necessary by revised laws of nomenclature.