From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Oct 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 59–60, 86
Summary:
Has sent two Impatiens flowers; curious to know what CD makes of the floral whorls and their vascular bundles.
Cassia is another genus that has different [coloured] anthers in same flower.
Continues to work on Welwitschia.
Feels as CD does about his work, which after a time seems flat and stale. He could never have done what CD did in his Orchids.
CD’s facts about Verbascum have horrible bearing on JDH’s practice of lumping species together.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
