JDH asked to check Lindley on Acropera.
JDH asked to check Lindley on Acropera.
Transport of an orchid to Down.
Requests more precise details about Oxalis, to which GB referred in his remarks on Primula.
Acropera species may be males of other orchids.
Homologies of ducts in orchids.
Went to British Museum to see Bates’s mimetic butterflies.
Would prefer to have Primula paper published in the Linnean Society’s Journal rather than Transactions.
Requests that DO examine enclosed microscope slides of Acropera ovules, to confirm CD’s opinion that females are non-functional.
Can DO comment on disagreement between Robert Brown and John Lindley over the number of Acropera carpels?
O. Heer’s Atlantis theory vs CD’s hypothesis of a migration north during warm periods.
Thanks GB for valuable letter [3331].
Will follow his suggestion about violets.
Discusses differences between Thymus and Primula.
Thanks Dorothy Nevill for her assistance in supplying him with plants, but he will not require any more. Asks her to remember him to A. E. Knox.
Reports on state of family’s health.
Thanks for "multitudinous" references.
Thanks Hooker for orchids.
Knows nothing of the habits of earwigs. Thinks Edward Newman may be trusted on the point [as to whether or not earwigs can fly].
Refers to Bates' admiration of ARW.