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To J. D. Hooker   4 November [1879]1

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

Nov— 4th.

My dear Hooker

All the acorns have dropped off my Cork-tree unripe. Will you therefore be so very kind as to do what you offered viz send by enclosed address a young tree of Quercus rubra or coccinea (whichever species is the handsomest) to be planted in my honour!2

Ever yours | C. Darwin

Pray thank Dyer for his full answer about Lunularia.—3

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to Victor Marshall, 14 September 1879.
2
CD had hoped to send acorns from a cork oak tree to Victor Marshall as a memorial of his visit (see letter to Victor Marshall, 14 September 1879). Quercus rubra is northern red oak; Quercus coccinea is scarlet oak.
3
In his letter of 31 October 1879, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer had identified a specimen as Lunularia vulgaris (a synonym of L. cruciata, crescent-cup liverwort).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12290,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12290