Has decided to send R. L. Tait’s paper to the Royal Society.
Will try glycerine on Mimosa but doubts it will have an effect.
Has decided to send R. L. Tait’s paper to the Royal Society.
Will try glycerine on Mimosa but doubts it will have an effect.
Gives directions for growing plants he has sent and corrects CD’s taxonomy.
Describes observations by his son Horace on the extreme sensitivity of twisted seeds to moisture.
Comments on Hermann Müller’s article on the structure of Gunnera flowers.
Will JDH be in London?
Cirripede observations.
Proposes to visit Kew.
Will come to Kew on Friday.
CD’s visit to Kew.
JDH concerned about preparations for [his address at] Royal Society [anniversary] meeting [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1876): 72–94].
JDH has heard from Asa Gray, who approves of the botany primer [Botany (1876)].
Comments on R. L. Tait’s claimed isolation of digestive ferments from Nepenthes.
E. R. Lankester is in danger of being black-balled for admission to the Linnean Society; Thiselton-Dyer is in the midst of the fight.
Asks JDH to try to come to luncheon if he is in London.
CD is furious at the prospect of Lankester’s being black-balled by the Linnean Society. He plans to solicit support from various members and to come up with Frank for the voting.
Has read JDH’s paper ["Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 116–233] and thinks it the best essay on geographical distribution he has ever met with. Comments on the paper.
Thanks for reading paper. Accepts CD’s criticisms; discussion of some points.
Hopes JDH can come to stay in January.
Thanks for the corallines.
Mention of JDH’s capital speech.
Can JDH come on 16 Jan? CD will ask the "old set" to come and also the Lyells.
Asks CD to come up to vote for Lankester.
Severely critical of R. L. Tait’s paper on Nepenthes communicated to the Royal Society.
Promises to vote for Lankester.
Acknowledges faults of R. L. Tait’s paper.