Urges Frank to reconsider his refusal of Cambridge Examinership.
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Urges Frank to reconsider his refusal of Cambridge Examinership.
Frank’s reasons for not accepting the Cambridge Examinership.
At work on Movement in plants.
Discusses John Ball’s, G. de Saporta’s, and his own theories of higher plant origin. Their rapid development remains an "abominable mystery".
Frank is working in Würzburg.
JDH criticises John Ball’s theory of origin of higher plants in Carboniferous highlands, where low carbon dioxide levels permitted survival.
Searching for the right gardener.
JDH looking for a gardener for CD’s unusual needs.
Will get in touch with young gardener about terms of employment. It is good of Hooker to remember about heliotropism of insectivorous plants.
JDH requests specimens from Miss [Sophy] Wedgwood.
Wants some seeds to see how certain seedlings break through ground.
Wants seedling of Quercus rubra or Q. coccinea.
Congratulations on Erasmus Darwin; likes CD’s part better than Ernst Krause’s.
Received false notice of Asa Gray’s death.
Gray and JDH engaged in comparing widely separated but floristically similar regions.
Movement of cotton plant cotyledons.
Thanks JDH for his praise of Erasmus Darwin.
Delighted that JDH is thinking about geographical distribution, wishes he would go over the New Zealand flora again.
Miss Arabella Buckley’s letter on Wallace’s poor health and finances leads CD to seek JDH’s aid in getting a Government pension.
Argues against pension for Wallace because of his spiritualism; the underhanded way he brought about discussion of spiritualism at BAAS; his pocketing money from a bet on the sphericity of the earth; his lack of absolute poverty.
JDH convinces CD not to press for pension for Wallace.
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