Asks for advice on where a local chemist can send his brother’s meteorological observations from Missouri.
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Asks for advice on where a local chemist can send his brother’s meteorological observations from Missouri.
Sends flowers with anthers of two colours.
Suggests CD try to get Lythrum hyssopifolia from France.
Dimorphic flowers.
Differences between newly opened and older orchids.
Flowers of Spiranthes and Goodyera.
Acknowledges CD’s approval of his review of Origin in Revue Germanique [16 (1861): 523–59; 17 (1861): 232–63]. Praises natural selection;
criticises C.-A. Royer’s [French] translation.
He collected Splachnum luteum north of Spitzbergen 40 years ago. Now an acquaintance has brought the plant back from the identical spot.
Has given directions to save seeds of Lythrum hyssopifolium.
CD’s diagram of Lythrum salicaria is very remarkable. [See Collected papers 2: 107.]
Walter White [Asst.-Sec. and Librarian, Royal Society] has introduced EC to Richard Kippist of the Linnean Society, who has made little progress toward accepting Origin.
Wife’s health better.
Visited Duke of Argyll.
Thanks CD for Cruciferae diagram; will ponder it.
Staggered by complexity of Welwitschia.
Hopes to have Lythrum hyssopifolium seeds to send soon.
BAAS is meeting in Cambridge and all eminent Cambridge men are wanted present. If his health were reliable, CD would be in chair of Botany and Zoology Section.
PGK’s brother is coming to England and will call on CD.
He is impressed but not absolutely convinced by the Origin.
Raises a question about which CD wrote years ago: why do sheep degenerate in Australia, necessitating periodic importation?
Strongly recommends Condy’s "Ozonised Disinfectant" as a cure for scarlet fever.
Praises Orchids.
He has finished his work on Quercus.
H. Lecoq has worked on hybridism,
and P. Duchartre on orchid polymorphism.
Asks his opinion of A. C. Ramsay’s glacial lake theory. Encloses Julius Haast’s communication on glacial phenomena.
Acknowledges presentation copy of Orchids.
Asks advice on what to do with all his fossils. Sending various specimens.
Offers to exchange fossils with CD. He has very good series of French and German fossils.
Last chapter of Orchids opens up a "knotty sort of question about accident or design".
Changes in orchid flowers as they age.
Thinks CD may find trimorphism in Nesaea verticillata.
Encloses MS ["On the American fossil elephant", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 43–114]. Shows persistence of specific characters through glacial period.
Eocene monkeys mistakenly described as pigs.
Thinks "ozonised fluid" is a pure solution of permanganate of soda. Sends dosage.
J. C. Wickham and Arthur Mellersh are in town and BJS wonders whether there is any chance CD might join them.
Acknowledges 3d edition of Origin.
Praise of Herbert Spencer’s First Principles [1862].