To J. D. Hooker [before 15 February 1862]1
My dear Hooker
Will you give me Mr W. C. Crockers (is this spelt right?) address in enclosed envelope:2 I am half mad about Mormodes perhaps he may know. 3
C.D.
Footnotes
Dated by the relationship to the letter from J. D. Hooker, [before 15 February 1862].
Charles William Crocker had retired from his post as foreman of the propagating department at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and lived in Chichester (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [before 15 February 1862], and letter from C. W. Crocker, 17 February 1862).
CD had for some time been anxious to obtain reliable information concerning the mechanism by which the pollinia of this orchid are ejected, and had unsuccessfully sought observations and specimens from various of his botanical correspondents. See Correspondence vol. 9, and this volume, second letter from D. F. Nevill, [before 22 January 1862], letter from John Rogers, 22 January 1862, and letter from James Bateman [1 February 1862]. CD discussed Mormodes in Orchids, pp. 249–69.
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 26 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
Asks for the address of C. W. Crocker.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3428
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 96: 7 r.
- Physical description
- 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3428,” accessed on 21 October 2019, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-3428.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10
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