From J. D. Hooker [12 October 1862]
Summary
Has sent two Impatiens flowers; curious to know what CD makes of the floral whorls and their vascular bundles.
Cassia is another genus that has different [coloured] anthers in same flower.
Continues to work on Welwitschia.
Feels as CD does about his work, which after a time seems flat and stale. He could never have done what CD did in his Orchids.
CD’s facts about Verbascum have horrible bearing on JDH’s practice of lumping species together.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 Oct 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 59–60, 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3757 |
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| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
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