Letter 3198
Darwin, C. R. to Dickie, George
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Thanks for Listera specimen, which arrived withered from being sent in a wooden box.
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2. Hesketh Crescent | Torquay
Saturday
Dear Sir
I thank you most sincerely for the Listera, which I have been very glad to examine. But most unfortunately from being packed in wood Box, instead of tin, the moss was almost dry, & even the buds partly withered, so that the rostellum would not show any signs of the curious vital action peculiar to this genus.— This is the more unfortunate
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The dating is based upon the reference in the letter to George Gordon, 6 July [1861] to CD's having received Dickie's Listera specimens `yesterday'. Although 6 July 1861 was a Saturday, CD clearly states in the letter to George Gordon, 6 July [1861] that he also wrote to Dickie `yesterday'. - +
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Dickie, professor of botany at Aberdeen University, sent CD specimens of Listera cordata (see Orchids, p. 152). He had previously supplied CD with information about another plant that grew near Aberdeen (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter from George Dickie, 1 December 1856).