To T. H. Farrer 10 April 1874
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Ap. 10 1874
My dear Farrer
I am delighted to hear about Coronilla. You must publish an account, & especially with diagrams.1 Pray attend whether the bee penetrates & ruptures with its proboscis the cells on the calyx, as I believe to be the case with the nectaries of Orchis mascula &c.2
I do not quite understand the claw on the vexellum, but I will shew your note to my son Frank.3
yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Farrer, Thomas Henry. 1874. Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers—Coronilla. Nature, 2 July 1874, pp. 169–70.
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
Delighted to hear about Coronilla. Urges publication ["Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers– Coronilla", Nature 10 (1874): 169–70].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9400
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/22)
- Physical description
- LS(A) 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9400,” accessed on 28 September 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9400.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
