To J. D. Hooker 13 October [1875]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Oct. 13th
My dear Hooker
I am dreadfully perplexed about the enclosed note.2 It is not at all nice in the confounded man (who has bothered me almost out of my life) to write on Nepenthes when he & all the world know that you have taken up the subject.3 What had I better do? Do for Heaven sake advise me soon through Dyer.— Am I bound to read his paper over before sending it to the Royal Soc. that is if you advise me to agree to his request? I feel that I could not judge his paper fairly.4 Forgive me for bothering you.
Yours affect | C. Darwin
P.S.— | (Ask Dyer to return the certificate for Romanes, as Huxley will be here on Sunday & I will get him to sign.—5
You know Glycerine strongly attracts water, & Frank can work the twisted seeds splendidly by putting them alternately in water & glycerine, & I think that he will thus make out mechanism.—6
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
R. L. Tait has requested CD send his [Tait’s] paper on Nepenthes to Royal Society. CD considers this a nuisance.
Certificate for G. J. Romanes.
Francis’ experiments on mechanism of twisted seeds.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10193
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 95: 392–3
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10193,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10193.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23