From Daniel Oliver 12 July 1877
Kew
12 July, | 1877
My dear Mr Darwin
You are really the most generous man in the world! Dyer has handed me a copy of your “Forms of Flowers” inscribed from the author.1 Thank you very much. But I do not deserve this consideration one bit.
Prof. Alex. Dickson of Glasgow has been making observations in his elaborate way on the singular epidermal cells lining the pitcher of Cephalotus. He wants to know if any of those “confounded Germans” (as he disrespectfully calls them) have anticipated him. I am not aware that anybody has described histologl. details of Cephalotus. May I ask if you happen to have any such reference you wd. very kindly let him—or me for him—have it?2
Very sincerely yours | D. Oliver
Footnotes
Bibliography
Dickson, Alexander. 1878. On the structure of the pitcher of Cephalotus follicularis. (Abstract.) Journal of Botany, British and Foreign n.s. 7: 1–5.
Forms of flowers: The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877.
Summary
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
Alexander Dickson would like to know whether anyone has described the epidermal cells lining the pitcher of Cephalotus.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11048
- From
- Daniel Oliver
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 173: 34
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11048,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11048.xml