Continued problems in scheduling farewell meeting.
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Continued problems in scheduling farewell meeting.
Asks JDH to read the enclosed Memorial, sign it, and send it to T. H. Huxley.
CD very ill; tries to arrange departure meeting with JDH.
CD’s guess at composition of Maldive flora.
In London and wishes to meet JDH.
Now plans to come to Kew for an hour’s farewell if his stomach permits.
Congratulations on JDH’s Flora Antarctica [1847].
CD too unwell to see JDH. Encloses Emma’s farewell note.
Supports idea to translate C. K. Sprengel, but opposes publishing it together with H. Müller because this would raise price of Müller’s useful book.
Confirms JDH’s observation that only tip of cabbage radicle shows geotropism.
CD solicits JDH’s aid in obtaining Government funds for James Torbitt’s efforts to breed disease resistance in potatoes.
CD again asks JDH to support Torbitt’s project to breed disease-resistant potatoes. He has also sought support of Farrer, Duke of Richmond, and James Caird.
His attempts to obtain a Government grant for Torbitt seem hopeless.
CD is suffering from constant swimming of the head.
Sends JDH a letter he has written supporting James Torbitt’s potato trials.
CD and Frank think they have proved that function of plant sleep is to protect leaves from injury by chilling radiation. Requests plants for experiment to determine whether underside of leaf is hardier than upper.
Studying geotropism.
Experiments using exposure to frost to study nyctitropism are difficult to perform because species vary in frost tolerance.
JDH may put CD’s name down for £200 for the proposed fund.
Does JDH have a plant of Porlieria hygrometrica he could lend to CD?
CD contributes £200 to JDH’s Royal Society fund.
Wants Oxalis specimen named; is fascinated by cotyledonary movements of the genus.
Before JDH discusses flora of Canary Islands CD suggests he read F. B. White’s paper [see 11707], which explains stocking of Atlantic island fauna as due to changed currents during [last, or Miocene] northern glacial period.
Confident of species theory as result of applying it to cirripede sexual systems.
CD’s opinion of E. Blyth. JDH should meet Blyth, inquire about domesticated varieties, study insular flora, solve coal-plant problem.
Thanks for JDH’s description of CD’s work in Nature.
Anthony Rich to bequeath his property (over £1100 a year) to CD.
Waiting for frost to go so experiments can start again.