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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from C. R. Darwin to J. D. Hooker   9 [April 1862]

Darwin, Charles Robert

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>On <i>Vanilla</i>.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Asks JDH to observe whether he has both long- and short-styled form of <i>Menyanthes</i></p><p style='text-align: justify;'>and whether he has "Saxifrages with long hairs glandular at the tip".</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>The Linnean Society session made him vomit all night. Fears he must give up trying to read papers or speak. "It is a horrid bore. I can do nothing like other people."</p>

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