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Hooker’s lecture to BAAS ["Insular floras"] was capital,
but hears Wallace’s paper [Address to Anthropology Section, Rep. BAAS 36 (1866): 93–4] was best.
Pleased RS continues zealous work for natural history.
CD considers the report that N. American antelopes’ horns are intermediate between hollow and solid horns of ruminants to be one of the more curious facts he has lately heard of with respect to higher animals [C. A. Canfield, "On the habits of the prongbuck", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1866): 105–11].
Asks her to see whether the flowers or leaves of Erica massoni are noted as glutinous in the Botanical Magazine.
Inquires about the pods of peony: are they brilliantly coloured and do birds eat them?
On his "Insular floras" lecture.
Huxley’s success as President of Section.
D. W. R. Grove’s address. Grove left Darwinism to JDH after "sounding the charge".
Thanks CD for his efforts on behalf of JvH’s Royal Society candidacy.
Is at work on a large-scale map of the Southern Alps [of New Zealand].
The ever-growing goldfields and their effect on the country.
Sends a "remarkable" enclosure [missing], evidently by a working man, which will interest CD as "shewing that ideas are spread".
Has had the blocks cut as requested and forwards the proofs.
Encloses article on habits of jungle fowl.
[N. C.?] Seringe’s article [unspecified] has come safely.
Feels deeply at CD’s distress [Susan Darwin is dying].
Drosera will go in a day or two.
Sends a paper, by the wife of the local curate, on the habits of animals.
Susan Darwin still lives, but is dying.
Requests an Erica massoni to compare with Drosera.
On L. Agassiz’s "astonishing" view that Amazon Valley was filled with gigantic glacier. Asa Gray says LA is determined to cover the globe with glaciers in order to destroy "Darwinian views".
Excellent review of A. Murray [The geographical distribution of mammals] in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1866): 902].
Frankland’s Royal Institution lecture ["On the source of muscular power" Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4 (1862–6): 661–85].
Wallace’s paper.
Replies to CD’s two memoranda, GB explains: 1. That he never said thistles do not produce seeds, but rather that the infinite majority of new plants are propagated from buds
2. That book-borrowing rules of the Linnean Library are not so stringent as the Librarian makes out.
Sends his paper ["On the glacial phenomena of Caithness", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 22 (1866): 261–81], which shows glaciation under marine conditions in Scotland.
Drosera and Erica massoni have been sent.
Had heard of Agassiz’s theory but not that CD’s theory had raised it.
JDH wrote the article on A. Murray.
Frankland’s lecture too much for him.
Sends copy of Land and Water, a journal he now edits. Has quit the Field. Asks CD to patronise his columns with queries, as other zoologists do.
Quotes Botanical Magazine on Erica massoni. Its branches terminate in large umbels of flowers that are extremely viscous and entrap insects.