Thanks for monstrous floral specimen, but it is a common one.
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Thanks for monstrous floral specimen, but it is a common one.
Would be pleased to have third edition of Origin.
Is unwell and dreads the winter.
Relates personal news about family members.
CD is "glad Glen Roy is settled".
Mentions evolutionary remarks on birds by Owen.
Compares variability among lower and higher organisms. Comments on Hooker’s view of the subject.
Forthcoming publication of Huxley’s book [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)] and Lyell’s [Antiquity of man (1863)].
Lythrum. Wants to examine fresh flowers of Lythraceae. Lythrum salicaria has interested him very much.
Microscopes.
Asks whether JDH can think of plants that have different coloured anthers or pollen in same flowers (as in Melastoma) or on same and in different plants as in Lythrum. Would be a safe guide to dimorphism.
Observation of action of pollen in Linum grandiflorum.
On microscopes.
Cannot remember any plants but Melastoma with different coloured polliniferous anthers.
JL’s Swiss tour with Tyndall and Huxley.
Lake-habitations.
CD is well content with sale of 768 copies [of Orchids]. Hopes and expects remainder will ultimately be sold.
Sends his paper [on glacial lakes, see 3450]. Falconer attacked it. Falconer thinks Himalayas confound the theory, but Hooker writes that it explains the absence of lakes there.
Looked for Hottonia but with little success.
Proportions of different forms of Lythrum.
Family news; mostly an account of ill health.
Their enumeration [of forms of Lythrum?] is invaluable. He will write later to explain what he is trying to prove about Lythrum through laborious crosses.
Asks for flowers of both forms of Hottonia to measure pollen and compare stigmas.