From Charles William Crocker 17 February 1862
Summary
Thanks for Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Separation of sexes in Billbergia.
Offers to experiment under CD’s direction, now that he has retired from Kew.
| Author: | Charles William Crocker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 254 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3449 |
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- … B. bivittata refers to its having six stamens, ‘three attached to the petals, short, with sterile(? ) anthers in the pistillate flowers’, and to the pistil being ‘absent in some flowers’. Daniel Oliver , who was the librarian and assistant in the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, became professor of botany at University College London in 1861. CD sent most of the manuscript of Orchids to his publisher, John Murray , …
