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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
