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To R. D. Fitzgerald   6 September 1877

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)

Sept. 6th. 1877

Dear Sir

I must have the pleasure of once again thanking you for another number of your magnificent work on Australian Orchids.— The case of Orthoceras is indeed a very remarkable one.—1

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Ch. Darwin

1
Fitzgerald’s Australian orchids (Fitzgerald 1875–94) was published in parts, beginning in July 1875. CD had received the first two parts from Fitzgerald in 1875 and 1876 (see Correspondence vol. 23, letter to R. D. Fitzgerald, 16 July 1875, and Correspondence vol. 24, letter to R. D. Fitzgerald, 18 August [1876]). The third part, published in June 1877, included an account of the apparently self-fertilising Orthocerus strictum (horned orchid); CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–CUL.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11130,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11130