From Daniel Oliver 8 April 1867
Royal Gardens Kew
8 April 67
My dear Sir,
Mrs Hooker has put your note into my hands referring to Naegeli & Hieracia. 1
The difficulty about them is this that hardly anyone has a good set of the peculiar Highland forms excepting Mr James Backhouse Jr of York & the few to whom he has communicated specimens & I doubt if he would undertake to make up a set for Naegeli.2
Mr Baker of the Kew Herbarium has a fair collection of British Hieracia (he has himself published a fasciculus of Teesdale or No. Yorks. species) & he would be glad either to lend Naegeli his collection entire—or to make him up a set of duplicates so far as his stores allow. He has a good set of French critical species but these proby. N. has already from Jordan &c.3
Baker thinks neither Babington nor Watson likely to be able to help—at any rate in the way of giving N. a set.4
I shd. have mentioned that Dr Hooker is at Paris—a Juror5
Ever sincerely yrs | Danl. Oliver
Footnotes
Bibliography
Backhouse, James. 1856. A monograph of the British Hieracia. York: William Simpson.
Baker, John Gilbert. 1863. North Yorkshire; studies of its botany, geology, climate and physical geography. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green.
Summary
Arrangements for obtaining Carl Nägeli a set of British Hieracium specimens.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5494
- From
- Daniel Oliver
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 173: 33
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5494,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5494.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15