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To Thomas Woolner   24 February 1875

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

Feb 24 1875

My dear Mr Woolner

I am much obliged to you & your friend for having kindly told me about the Azalea but it so happens that I had already seen the account.1

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

LS

1
Woolner’s friend has not been identified. The account mentioned has not been identified but may have concerned the fly-catching ability of some azaleas. An article, ‘Azalea viscosa, a fly-catcher’ in the American Naturalist, September 1874, pp. 517–18, discussed the sticky glandular hairs of the swamp azalea (now Rhododendron viscosum) and the small insects trapped by them. CD subscribed to the journal and his copy of this issue is in his collection of unbound journals in the Darwin Archive–CUL.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9872,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9872