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Sends date of his mother’s death – 7 Apr 1859.
Was completely mystified by conjuring performance of [John Nevil] Maskelyne.
Asks permission to republish his climbing plants paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 1–118] in a corrected form [Climbing plants].
Asks AG to forward [unspecified] enclosure to Chauncey Wright.
[Provides directions for travel to Down by train.]
Encloses report on his paper "Old age characteristics among ammonites", [Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 17 (1875): 236–41].
Stability of long inherited characters. Dependence of some recently acquired characters on the environment.
Had two mornings working on Drosera but it was sluggish. Frog preparations are pretty good.
Asks whether he might copy two of FJC’s drawings of Aldrovanda. He would like to have a proof of the plate for two woodcuts to be used in his forthcoming book [Insectivorous plants].
Returning the plants DO had sent him from Kew
Wonders if it is possible that the couvade had its origin in an early habit of the male sex to take part in the nourishment of the offspring.
His opinion of the couvade.