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DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). Autograph letter signed to an unnamed recipient, Down House, 17 [?January, n.y.], 2 pages, 8vo.
Darwin has been 'worn out'; he wishes he could help his correspondent, but 'I hardly know Lady D. Nevill well enough to borrow plants for a third party'. He asks his correspondent if he is aware that 'Dr Hooker has worked hard at Nepenthes ... I told him to try the secretion of pitchers which had caught no insects, & it cd not digest. Therefore to get the ferment, it is necessary to give some nitrogenous compound ... '.
Lady Dorothy Fanny Nevill (1826-1913), the daughter of Horatio Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford, developed a notable garden at Dangstein near Petersfield, where she cultivated orchids and pitcher-plants. Darwin had shared his observations on pitcher-plants with Hooker in 1874 (see the Darwin Correspondence Project, no. 9523) and refers to Hooker's discoveries in his work, Insectivorous Plants, published the following year.
Darwin has been 'worn out'; he wishes he could help his correspondent, but 'I hardly know Lady D. Nevill well enough to borrow plants for a third party'. He asks his correspondent if he is aware that 'Dr Hooker has worked hard at Nepenthes ... I told him to try the secretion of pitchers which had caught no insects, & it c
Lady Dorothy Fanny Nevill (1826-1913), the daughter of Horatio Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford, developed a notable garden at Dangstein near Petersfield, where she cultivated orchids and pitcher-plants. Darwin had shared his observations on pitcher-plants with Hooker in 1874 (see the Darwin Correspondence Project, no. 9523) and refers to Hooker's discoveries in his work, Insectivorous Plants, published the following year.
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