To J. D. Hooker 21 February [1873]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Feb. 21st
My dear Hooker
You have given me exactly the information which I wanted.
Geniuses jump. I have just procured Formic acid, to try whether its vapour or minute drops will delay germination of fresh seeds; trying others at same time for comparison.—2 But I shall not be able to try them till middle of April, as my despotic wife insists on taking House in London for a month from the middle of March.—3 I am sorry to hear of your Influenza.—
Farewell | Ever yours | C. Darwin
I am glad to hear of the Primer— it is not at all, I think, a folly— Do you know Asa Gray’s childs book on the function of plants—or some such Title.— It is very good in giving an interest to the subject.—4
By the way can you lend me the Jany. Nor of the London Journal of Botany, for an article on insect agency in Fertilisation.—5
Footnotes
Bibliography
White, Francis Buchanan. 1873. The influence of insect-agency on the distribution of plants. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign n.s. 2: 11–13.
Summary
Will see whether formic acid delays germination of fresh seeds.
Thinks primer not at all a folly. Refers JDH to Asa Gray’s "child’s book" [see 8363].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8779
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 94: 259–60
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8779,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8779.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
