To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 1 April 1881
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
April 1. 81
My dear Dyer
What a good-natured man you are to write & tell me about so many curious things— I will try & get the Pinguicula.1 But I write now to ask you to send me, if you will be so kind, one or two flowers in a tin-box by Post of the Monochætum, for I cannot understand my own notes, as I did not describe the flower & thought that I shd. never forget its structure.2
I shall, however, not dare to publish my results without repeating my experiments in fertilising the flowers in this genus; & raising seedlings; & the plants which Veitch has sent me (& he has sent his oldest plants) will not flower I shd. think for 2 or 3 years!—3
If by any chance any other Melastomaceous species is in flower please send me a flower.—
Ever yours gratefully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Wants Monochaetum flowers for examination as he has forgotten the structure and cannot publish until he has repeated his observations and experiments.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13104
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 214–15)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13104,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13104.xml
