To J. D. Hooker 20 [November 1861]1
Down
20th
My dear Hooker
I am very sorry to bother you, but see what Lindley says about the Acropera luteola.2 What must I do? Can you tell me who named it?
Yours | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Dated by the relationship to the letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 November [1861].
Hooker had sent CD flowers of an orchid he identified as Acropera luteola. John Lindley, however, had informed CD that he knew of ‘no species so named’ (Orchids, p. 203 and n.).
Bibliography
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
JDH asked to check Lindley on Acropera.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3325
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 115: 132
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3325,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3325.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9
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