Discusses corrections to Variation.
Extends invitation to E. Ray Lankester to visit Down.
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Discusses corrections to Variation.
Extends invitation to E. Ray Lankester to visit Down.
Would be obliged for correction of references in Variation [1st ed.].
Has read CD’s book on Drosera [Insectivorous plants] and found that it presents new material and is very interesting.
Has discovered that the parasites he thought he had found in Melipona nests are in fact true females. It is remarkable that they differ so greatly from the sterile females and males of their species.
CD obliged about the Schrankia
and thanks WTT-D for details of last number of Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Suggests WTT-D read account of Bignonia capreolata in forthcoming Climbing plants.
Plans experiments [on Melastomataceae]. Describes similar experiment performed on Monochaetum. Interested in meaning of differently coloured stamens.
Thanks for information. Absorption of ammonium carbonate by glandular hairs.
Encloses manuscript [missing] by George King ["Sport in Paritium", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 15 (1877): 101–3].
Sends thanks to Hooker for correction of name. Mentions other errors.
Wants Imantophyllum for crossing experiments.
Is glad WTT-D thinks George King’s notes worth sending to the Linnean Society.
Discusses blackballing of E. R. Lankester [at Linnean Society]. Reports on his attempts to persuade other Fellows to support Lankester’s election.
CD’s attempts to get support for Lankester among Fellows of the Linnean Society. He has encountered opposition to the Council.
Congratulates WTT-D on [election of E. Ray Lankester to] Linnean Society.
Mentions visit to Royal Society.
Pleased to see George Bentham looking well.
Asks for titles of papers on structure of Nepenthes for use by R. L. Tait. Mentions paper by RLT.
Thanks for references for R. L. Tait.
Requests orchid specimens for experiment.
Thanks for WTT-D’s kindness about the orchids.
Thanks for Catasetum and other specimens.
Discusses the death of his daughter-in-law.
Plans to visit Southampton.
Would like Catasetum and Acropera plants.
Asks GB to send him flowers of the two forms of Boronia pinnata, as he is republishing his papers on dimorphic plants [Forms of flowers].
Sends copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.
Has examined the specimens of Boronia pinnata. No evidence of two distinct bodies of individuals.
Asks whether extra-American species of Aegiphila are heterostyled.