From Robert Bateman [28 January 1862]1
Biddulph Grange, | Congleton.
Tuesday.
Dear Sir.
My father being obliged to leave home early this morning was unable to answer your note which he hopes to do tomorrow.2 Meanwhile he bids me to send you three other species which he hopes will be of service, namely a Phaius, Leptotes & Goodyera.3 The names of the orchids of which you send notes are the following.
1. “Labellum pale spotted with purple, sepals & petals green with purple spots”
Zygopetalum crinitum.
2. Odontoglossum Bictoniense.
3. Odontoglossum pulchellum
4 Calanthe vestita.
5. Purple Cattleya-like flower
Laelia anceps.
6 The Angræcum is a A. Sesquipedale & is from
Madagascar
Believe me | Dear Sir | Yrs very truly | Robert Bateman.
to Dr Darwin.
CD annotations
Footnotes
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
For his father [James Bateman], he sends three more species of orchids and names of others described by CD.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3357
- From
- Robert Bateman
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Congleton
- Source of text
- DAR 160.1: 60
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3357,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3357.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10
