From Daniel Oliver 9 June 1866
Royal Gardens Kew
June 9/1866
My dear Sir/
Your plant is, I think, Anchusa italica 1
Schacht’s ‘Lehrbuch’2 I am afraid you will not find at Linn. Soc. If you think it worth while referring to I suppose we might make an exception again to our stringent rule about lending books!3
very sincerely yrs | Dl. Oliver
Footnotes
Bibliography
Coats, Alice Margaret. 1968. Flowers and their histories. London: Adam & Charles Black.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Schacht, Hermann. 1856–9. Lehrbuch der Anatomie und Physiologie der Gewächse. 2 vols. Berlin: G. W. F. Müller.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Identifies a plant.
CD will not find Hermann Schacht’s Lehrbuch [der Anatomie und Physiologie der Gewächse (1856–9)] at the Linnean Society Library.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5116
- From
- Daniel Oliver
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 173: 32
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5116,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5116.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14