From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 94: 270–1
Summary:
Asks JDH why so many plants are protected by a thin layer of waxy matter or with fine hairs.
Wrote to John Smith for a plant of Oxalis sensitiva, but it has not acted well.
Rejoices over Ayrton’s retirement. Hopes W. P. Adam, his successor, is a good sort of man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project