To J. D. Hooker 30 April [1860]
Summary
JDH has settled the Leschenaultia case, but it remains a difficulty to CD.
Goodenia, like bee orchid, seems a case of a structure with an evident function, which is not carried out. Is curvature of styles an incidental result of growth or a pollination adaptation?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2776 |
4.30 'La Petite Lune', Gill cartoon
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< Back to Introduction La Petite Lune was a sister paper of La Lune Rousse, and was published, edited and illustrated by André Gill, through 1878-9. It featured a series of caricatures titled ‘Les hommes illustrés’, to which this belongs. Gill again…
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1.16 Alphonse Legros, drypoint
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< Back to Introduction Alphonse Legros was highly esteemed by contemporaries for his engraved portraits of intellectuals and leading figures in the arts. These were collectors’ pieces which were sporadically published in sets from the 1860s onwards.…
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- … (London: printed for private circulation, 1923), p. 108, no. 430. Boston Public Library online …
