To J. D. Hooker 6 September [1857]1
Down Bromley Kent
Sept 6th
My dear Hooker
If at home & you can find time, I shd. be very glad of the Books, (Koch or Ledebour, or Webb or anything) in which varieties are marked to tabulate them.2
Can you at same time lend me the Cybele Brit.3 as Linn. Socy. is closed.—
About varieties, I have had one slap in face, viz in Miquel’s Holland, but he only gives 46 vars, in whole Flora & does not in the least show what they are.—4
I have had, also, a far more serious blow in a list of close species sent my by A. Gray, which I expected confidently would follow same apparent law with varieties; & I have written to him to ask whether he marked the species in the big genera with equal care with the little.5
I shd. be very glad to hear ever so roughly the result of your tabulation of Indian Flora, as some guide to see how things are tending.6
I do not know whether you care about Galls, the enclosed wild Carrot seems funny, each with bright orange larvæ within.
Ever yours | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Miquel, Frederich Anton Wilhelm. 1837. Disquisitio geographicobotanica de plantarum Regni Batavi distributione. Leiden. [Vols. 6,7]
Natural selection: Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1975.
Watson, Hewett Cottrell. 1847–59. Cybele Britannica; or British plants and their geographical relations. 4 vols. London: Longman.
Summary
Some negative results in variety tabulation survey.
Galls on wild carrot.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2137
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 114: 209
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2137,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2137.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6
