To J. D. Hooker [23 August 1864]1
Down
Tuesday Evening
My dear Hooker
I write a line to say that on Thursday we are going to 6 Chester Place Regents Park for a week to see how I stand a change.2 I mean, if I can walk, to devote myself to Zoolog. & Bot. Soc.y.—3
When Oliver comes back please tell him that you have answered me about Nepenthes: what you say (& which I shall quote) about footstalk thickening is to my mind decisive that it is a true climber.4
I was very much pleased with John Scott: he strikes me as a superior man in manners, &c as well as in mind.—5
Thank Heaven I have finished (first time over) my Climbing Paper.—6 The other day it occurred to me with huge satisfaction, that whenever you write your Plant Book,7 a great mass of facts will be ready in my paper for you to give an abstract of a page or two.—
Have you read Murchison v. Ramsay—it is excellently done & has quite staggered me.—8
Ever yours affecty | C. Darwin
P.S. I will return “Beer” with thanks; carriage paid to London—9
Footnotes
Bibliography
Beer, Joseph Georg. 1863. Beiträge zur Morphologie und Biologie der Familie der Orchideen. Vienna: Carl Gerold’s Sohn.
‘Climbing plants’: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 9 (1867): 1–118.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Saunders, Ann. 1969. Regent’s Park. A study of the development of the area from 1086 to the present day. Newton Abbot, Kent: David & Charles.
Summary
First draft of climbing plants paper is completed.
Nepenthes is a true climber.
Scott has visited Down.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4597
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 115: 245
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4597,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4597.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12