skip to content

Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from C. R. Darwin to J. D. Hooker   27 [October 1862]

Darwin, Charles Robert

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'><i>Masdevallia</i> turns out to be nothing wonderful, "I was merely stupid about it."</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Asks for plants for experiments.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'><i>Hedysarum</i> and <i>Oxalis sensitiva</i> seeds.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Asks whether Oliver knows of experiments on absorption of poisons by roots.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>CD finds he cannot publish this year on <i>Lythrum salicaria</i>; he must make 126 additional crosses!</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Asks for odd variations of common potato; he wants to grow a few plants of every variety.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'><i>Variation</i> is crawling.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Has had some bad attacks lately.</p>


Want to know more?

Under the 'View more options' menu you can find , any transcription and translation we have of the text and find out about sharing this image.

No Contents List Available
No Metadata Available

Share

If you want to share this page with others you can send them a link to this individual page:
Alternatively please share this page on social media

You can also embed the viewer into your own website or blog using the code below: