To George Francis 22 February 1878
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Feb 22—1878
Dear Sir,
I am very much obliged for the series of specimens which you have been so kind as to send me. The bulbs are planted & I hope will grow, if they fail I will sow seed.1 Unfortunately I have never attended to the colouring matter of plants; but I will write by this post to the best authority in Europe, Mr Sorby forwarding your note & offering to send him the specimens if he should like to investigate them.2 Should he publish on the subject I will ask him to acknowledge your assistance
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
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.
Sorby, Henry Clifton. 1867. On a definite method of qualitative analysis of animal and vegetable colouring-matters by means of the spectrum microscope. [Read 11 April 1867.] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 15: 433–55.
Summary
Thanks for the specimens: the bulbs have been planted.
He has not attended to the colouring matter of plants, but he will ask H. C. Sorby if he would like the specimens.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11371F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Francis
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- State Library of South Australia (inserted in Insectivorous plants 583.121 D228)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11371F,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11371F.xml
