From J. D. Hooker [1 January 1862]1
Dear Darwin
The Heterocentron is just out of flower, but more flowers will be open in a day or two I send Centradenia grandiflora & floribunda;2 would you care for a tetrandrous Melast. a Sonerila is now in flower.3
I send Eulophia viridis.4
Borrer is a very nice man, but very aged indeed—5 he will be delighted to send you seeds— he is a man of large property & a wonderfully acute British Botanist of the old school— Borrer & my Father traversed Scotland on horse-back in 1810! & explored Sutherland—6
Ev Yrs affec | J D H
What is the matter with your boys?7
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Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Cross and self fertilisation: The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876.
Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1903. A sketch of the life and labours of Sir William Jackson Hooker, … late director of the Royal Gardens of Kew. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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Orchids: On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862.
Summary
Sends plant specimens. William Borrer will be glad to send seeds.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3373
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 101: 5
- Physical description
- ALS 1p †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3373,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3373.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10