Is delighted CD plans to call on him.
Wants to discuss botanical work.
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Is delighted CD plans to call on him.
Wants to discuss botanical work.
Thanks for copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.
Reports instances of cross-fertilisation in maize,
and succession of forms of flowers on Isle of Wight.
Asks CD’s suggestions for his second edition of Julius von Sachs’s Text-book of botany.
Sends paper on mechanisms of cross-fertilisation in flowers ["Note on Parnassia palustris", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 11 (1871): 24–31].
Studying how fertilisation takes place without the aid of insects in winter varieties.
Sends CD some notes [missing] on the mode of fertilisation of winter-flowering plants, and outlines his conclusions regarding the different types of winter-flowerers and the means by which they are fertilised.
Proposes establishing a quarterly journal for longer, illustrated articles of some popular appeal. Seeks CD’s support.
Thanks for CD’s regrets at AWB’s leaving Nature.
Plans English editions of Asa Gray’s books [How plants grow; How plants behave].
Other publication plans.
Thanks for reference to Hermann Müller on fertilisation [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)].
Publication plans.
Believes some flowers fail to produce seed because of the access of too great a quantity of pollen. Asks for CD’s opinion and references.
Sends papers and references.
Reports his microscopic observations on Drosera and other plants.
Has found the relation of pollen-grain size to style size in Primula to be the opposite of CD’s view; asks whether there is an error or just remarkable variation.
Thanks AWB for review in Nature [probably review of Insectivorous plants, 12 (1875): 206–9, 228–31].
Arranges to visit AWB.
Declines invitation to breakfast.
Returns proofs of a notice which he finds "highly honourable" to himself.
Asks AWB for a reference to a paper;
thanks him for his generous review of the last edition [6th] of the Origin.
Discussed observations made in 1863 of Impatiens pollen and humble-bees.
Recommends H. Müller’s Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873).
Asks about woodblocks of illustrations for Climbing plants [1875].
Thanks for sending papers by Hermann Hoffmann.
Discusses spiral cells in Drosera and Pinguicula.
Returns copy of Botanische Zeitung.
Responds to comments on Drosera.