CD is much obliged to receive Beiträge zur Descendenz-Theorie [1876].
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CD is much obliged to receive Beiträge zur Descendenz-Theorie [1876].
Frank, who has been reclusive and very hardworking, is returning from Wales after a period of mourning for Amy.
Proof sheets [of Cross and self-fertilisation] have been lost.
Asks whether CD’s conclusions on cross- and self-fertilising plants agree with his own as set out in a notice in Nature [14 (1876): 543–4].
Refers him to Nature [14 (1876): 553] in which a Russian doctor [Prof. Poplavsky] contradicts GHD on deaf mutes not being closely interrelated.
Floral structure. The order of the development of the whorls and its relationship to a protandrous or protogynous condition in flowers.
Thanks for the third number of the Geological survey of Victoria.
Sends Drosera plants and details of treatment that led them to form normal leaves when grown without insects.
Sending Drosera plants by post instead of rail because they are rotting.
Thanks for a copy of GJ’s Zoologische Briefe (Jäger 1876).
Thanks for CD’s book [Cross and self-fertilisation] and information on protandry and protogyny.
Health better, but paralysis lingers.
Asks JDH to find young imperfect flowers of Hoya. CD has observed seed set although there was no trace of anthers.
Sends sheets [of Cross and self-fertilisation].
Heliotypes for Expression delayed because new negatives must be made.
Thanks Herr Koch [of Schweizerbart] for copies of Coral reefs and Climbing plants.
Comments on JG’s book [The great ice age and its relation to the antiquity of man, 2d ed. (1877)]. Recalls erratic boulder he knew in Shropshire as a boy.
Is sending sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation. He will be curious to see what AG thinks of it, as AG speaks the truth whether or not he approves. Is sick of trying to correct his "horrid bad style".
Discusses legal arrangements [unspecified].
JDH looking for Hoya for CD.
Hookers tried to visit Down on foot, but weather was too inclement.
Sends an enclosure [missing] concerned with a very provoking delay.
Thanks for Die Schutzmittel der Blüthen gegen unberufene Gäste (Kerner 1876).
Will send a copy of Cross and self fertilisation.
Discussing a purchase of land.