My dear M^r 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 histolog^l. details of Cephalotus. May I ask if you happen to have any such reference you w^d. very kindly let him—or me for him—have it?²

Very sincerely yours | D. Oliver