From George Henslow 25 September 1869
St John’s Parsonage | St John’s Wood
Sep 25 /69
Dear Mr Darwin.
Many thanks for the pamphlet sent, & duly received—on additions to fertility of Orchids;1 & which has interested me much. I must apologize for not having returned a paper on Phyllotaxis. I cannot understand part of it at all; viz: about the “rectangle” & the letters to the fig I found are wrong in some places.2 Though the rest of the paper is interesting.
I beg to send you a copy of my Expression on same subject.3
Hoping you are in good health | believe me | yrs very truly | Geo Henslow
Ch Darwin Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
Candolle, Casimir de. 1865. Théorie de l’angle unique en phyllotaxie. Bibliothèque universelle et revue Suisse. Archives des sciences physiques et naturelles 23: 199–212.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
‘Fertilization of orchids’: Notes on the fertilization of orchids. By Charles Darwin. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4th ser. 4 (1869): 141–59. [Collected papers 2: 138–56.]
Summary
Thanks for a paper on phyllotaxy.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6909
- From
- George Henslow
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- St John’s Wood
- Source of text
- DAR 166: 169
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6909,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6909.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17