Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin 17 August 1874
Hooker, Joseph Dalton
Darwin-Hooker Letters
<p style='text-align: justify;'>Describes his work on <i>Nepenthes</i>.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'><i>Cephalotus</i> is a beast.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>His address is a history of <i>Dionaea</i>, <i>Sarracenia</i>, and <i>Drosera</i>.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Thiselton-Dyer has helped enormously except with the observations; but his health is so poor that JDH thinks he is "evidently cut out for a Literate not a working botanist".</p>