To George Dickie [5 July 1861]1
2. Hesketh Crescent | Torquay
Saturday
Dear Sir
I thank you most sincerely for the Listera, which I have been very glad to examine.2 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
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Orchids: On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862.
Summary
Thanks for Listera specimen, which arrived withered from being sent in a wooden box.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3198
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Dickie
- Sent from
- Torquay
- Source of text
- Liverpool Central Library
- Physical description
- AL inc †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3198,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3198.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9