Is delighted CD plans to call on him.
Wants to discuss botanical work.
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Is delighted CD plans to call on him.
Wants to discuss botanical work.
Thanks for copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.
Reports instances of cross-fertilisation in maize,
and succession of forms of flowers on Isle of Wight.
Asks CD’s suggestions for his second edition of Julius von Sachs’s Text-book of botany.
Proposes establishing a quarterly journal for longer, illustrated articles of some popular appeal. Seeks CD’s support.
Thanks for CD’s regrets at AWB’s leaving Nature.
Plans English editions of Asa Gray’s books [How plants grow; How plants behave].
Other publication plans.
Thanks for reference to Hermann Müller on fertilisation [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)].
Publication plans.
Believes some flowers fail to produce seed because of the access of too great a quantity of pollen. Asks for CD’s opinion and references.
Sends papers and references.
Reports his microscopic observations on Drosera and other plants.
Has found the relation of pollen-grain size to style size in Primula to be the opposite of CD’s view; asks whether there is an error or just remarkable variation.