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Recommends J. Scott’s paper on crossing varieties of Verbascum.
Comments on Wollaston’s troubles
and his book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].
Mohl’s claim to foreign membership in Royal Society very strong.
Has been in despair about Variation – not worth a fifth part of the labour it cost him.
Is reading F. A. W. Miquel’s Flora du Japon [Prolusio florae Japonicae (1866–7)]; wonders whether A. Murray could be correct in his view that an area of the sea prevented Asiatico-Japan flora colonising western N. America.
Comments on A. Murray’s book [Geographical distribution of mammals (1866)].
His Majesty the King of Prussia has conferred upon CD the Order, Pour le Mérite, for Sciences and Arts.
Congratulates [G. H. Darwin] on being Second Wrangler.
Thanks CD for Variation.