References to figures of Coryanthes.
References to figures of Coryanthes.
Comments on CD’s criticism of Geographical distribution.
Plans to sell his house.
Delighted to hear of Frank Darwin’s discovery.
Seems hopeless to reason with people about vivisection.
JDH’s suggested text for Lyell’s tablet in Westminster Abbey.
Vigner[?] separates digestive principle from Nepenthes, disproving R. L. Tait.
Comments on an address by William Thomson (‘On the rigidity of the earth’?), which is about the same problem that GHD is working on. Is confident Thomson has overlooked some points.
Coleoptera inhabiting ants’ nests. Means of colonisation of new nests.
Describes cosmological ideas of Christian Radenhausen.
JDH hopes Thiselton-Dyer does not discourage Frank’s investigation of insectivorous plants.
Preparing new editions of botany text-books.
His marriage is set for August.
Richard Gordon’s French translation of Climbing plants [1877] is half printed.
In Martins’ Introduction to [Éd. Barbier’s translation of] Insectivorous plants [1877] he wants to include a complete bibliography of CD’s works: their extent is not generally known in France.
Responds to CD’s comments and criticism of Geographical distribution.
Recounts his observations on the different ways bees perforate flowers of white and blue varieties of monkshood. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p 428.]
Observations on pollinia of Orchis maculata
and on Primula elatior. [On latter, see Forms of flowers, p. 34.]
Experimenting on climbing plants.
Has no further information on Dionaea.
Wishes to make CD an Honorary Member of the Birmingham Natural History Society.
RLT has attempted [in a paper] to apply evolution to moral life.
Proposes to work on the origin of diseases; is going to study syphilis.
Sends Serbian edition of Ernst Haeckel’s Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte translated by his late brother.
Serbian edition of Origin, translated by MMR, not yet published because of war with Turks.
Sends three of his anthropological papers.
CD understates his case when he says the mandibular wattle of the "Irish greyhound pig" has no analogue or homologue.
No results yet with graft-hybrids.
Has been writing a paper.
"Lankester seems to have doubled up [H.] Slade [the medium] in fine style".
Reports on rats that gnawed holes in lead pipes.
Claims to have proved the great antiquity of several plant races. But this does not contradict the tendency to vary. Insists that heredity can make permanent varieties of sufficient duration to occur as fossils.