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DCP-LETT-3193

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
22 June [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 692)
Summary:

Thanks GB for specimen [of Orchis pyramidalis].

Discusses a great difficulty with orchids: "Insects visit several species which never secrete an atom of honey." [See Orchids, p. 44ff.] Does GB know whether nectar is ever secreted and reabsorbed promptly?

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3191

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gordon
Date:
22 June [1861]
Source of text:
Elgin Museum (Gordon Archive 61.8)
Summary:

Thanks GG for his efforts. Corallorhiza would be most valuable.

Leaves for Torquay on 1 July.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3192

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 June [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 84
Summary:

Many mutual acquaintances are ill.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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