From Lawson Tait 16 November [1875]1
7, Great Charles St. | Birmingham.
Novr. 16
My Dear Sir,
Have you seen the Dischidia Rafflesiana?
Carpenter describes it (quotum, Dr. Wallich’s Plantae Asiaticae Rariores) at p 152 Principles of Comparative Physiology 4th. Edition.2 Do you know if it is in cultivation?
Yours faithfully, | Lawson Tait
Footnotes
Bibliography
Carpenter, William Benjamin. 1854. Principles of comparative physiology. 4th edition. London: John Churchill.
Wallich, Nathaniel. 1830–2. Plantæ Asiaticæ rariores; or, descriptions and figures of a select number of unpublished East Indian plants. 3 vols. London, Paris, and Strasbourg: Treuttel and Würtz.
Summary
Has CD ever come across Dischidia rafflesiana?
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10261
- From
- Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Birmingham
- Source of text
- DAR 178: 22
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10261,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10261.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23