From J. D. Hooker 27 July 1875
Royal Gardens Kew
July 27/75.
My dear Darwin
I have sinned & done amiss in never yet thanking you for your splendid book on Insectivorous plants.1 What a vast amount of labor it has entailed— I had no idea that you had gone so deep into the Chemistry of the matter. I think that even Dyer2 is now convinced that the plants digest. The coming Darwin will discover that plants “read, mark & learn” too.
I was greatly interested in Utricularia, which is a lovely piece of work3
I have had a lot of Nepenthes waiting for study for 2 months, but have been so busy getting over arrears, & getting Dyer into work, that I have not touched them yet.4 As it is I am not half through the arrears of correspondence.
I am greatly tempted to go to Down on Saturday if you should be disengaged.5
I ought to go to Boulogne where Harriet & the younger children are, but I don’t want to go so far for a Sunday.6
Your Willy7 is coming to me on Saturday 14th.—
Shall you be disengaged can you give me a bed on Saturday.
I return the L. S. paper8
Ever yr affec | J D Hooker.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Summary
His appreciation of Insectivorous plants, especially Utricularia section.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10095
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 104: 33–4
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10095,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10095.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23