Asks for reference to an article on a mandrill.
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Asks for reference to an article on a mandrill.
Would like sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation if it is not already out.
His brother, George, reports from Calcutta a case of a man whose hands are divided like a cow’s foot.
Has seen notice on Empetrum but cannot understand how leaves in bud could act as fly-catchers.
JDH back from his honeymoon.
Finds he has gout, as his father and grandfather had.
Comments on essays by MW [Das Ausland, May 1875]. Criticises his theory of isolation as source of species change: "But my strongest objection to your theory is that it does not explain the manifold adaptations in structure in every organic being". Believes MW has misunderstood his views: "I believe that all the individuals of a species can be slowly modified within the same district … I do not believe that one species will give birth to two or more new species, as long as they are mingled together within the same district."
Frank, who has been reclusive and very hardworking, is returning from Wales after a period of mourning for Amy.
Asks whether CD’s conclusions on cross- and self-fertilising plants agree with his own as set out in a notice in Nature [14 (1876): 543–4].
Refers him to Nature [14 (1876): 553] in which a Russian doctor [Prof. Poplavsky] contradicts GHD on deaf mutes not being closely interrelated.
Floral structure. The order of the development of the whorls and its relationship to a protandrous or protogynous condition in flowers.
Sends Drosera plants and details of treatment that led them to form normal leaves when grown without insects.
Sending Drosera plants by post instead of rail because they are rotting.
Thanks for CD’s book [Cross and self-fertilisation] and information on protandry and protogyny.
Health better, but paralysis lingers.
Asks JDH to find young imperfect flowers of Hoya. CD has observed seed set although there was no trace of anthers.
Comments on JG’s book [The great ice age and its relation to the antiquity of man, 2d ed. (1877)]. Recalls erratic boulder he knew in Shropshire as a boy.
Discusses legal arrangements [unspecified].
JDH looking for Hoya for CD.
Hookers tried to visit Down on foot, but weather was too inclement.
Discussing a purchase of land.
Forwards a flower from a Mrs Crawshay, who sees its "evident struggle to become double as another instance of gradual evolution".