From George Maw 14 January 1869
Benthall Hall, | nr. Broseley.
Jany 14. 69
Dear Sir
I am very pleased to find I can be of any use to you. I will make a note as to the age of horning of Merino Lambs & try & get some information1
With reference to the drosphyllum could you send me a dried specimen to look at which I will return you.2 I am not acquainted with the plant nor is it mentioned by Kelaart in his Flora Calpensis or by Munby in the little work he published on the Flora of the N African coast but if I can see a dried specimen I will do my best to find it & send it by post as I shall be some weeks in the neighbourhood of Gibraltar & am generally lucky in finding plants I want to get.3
I am Dr Sir | Very truly | Geo Maw
C Darwin Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
Kelaart, Edward Frederick. 1846. Flora Calpensis. Contributions to the botany and topography of Gibraltar and its neighbourhood: with plan and views of the rock. London: John Van Voorst.
Munby, Giles. 1847. Flore d’Algèrie: ou catalogue des plantes indigènes du royaume d’Alger: accompagné des descriptions de quelques espèces nouvelles ou peu connues. Paris: J.B. Baillière.
Summary
In Gibraltar he will make notes on merino lambs and Drosophyllum as CD requests.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6553
- From
- George Maw
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Benthall Hall
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 103
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6553,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6553.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
