To Thomas Woolner 24 February 1875
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Feb 24 1875
My dear Mr Woolner
I am much obliged to you & your friend for having kindly told me about the Azalea but it so happens that I had already seen the account.1
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Woolner’s friend has not been identified. The account mentioned has not been identified but may have concerned the fly-catching ability of some azaleas. An article, ‘Azalea viscosa, a fly-catcher’ in the American Naturalist, September 1874, pp. 517–18, discussed the sticky glandular hairs of the swamp azalea (now Rhododendron viscosum) and the small insects trapped by them. CD subscribed to the journal and his copy of this issue is in his collection of unbound journals in the Darwin Archive–CUL.
Summary
Is much obliged to TW and his friend for having told him about the azalea, but CD had already seen the account.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9872
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Woolner
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Montague Collection of historical autographs: Series 1, box 2, Darwin folder)
- Physical description
- LS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9872,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
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