Shares Hooker’s feelings about Douglas Galton and Lord Henry Lennox.
Bored with preparing new editions.
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Shares Hooker’s feelings about Douglas Galton and Lord Henry Lennox.
Bored with preparing new editions.
Will be in London tomorrow and will try to pop over to Kew.
Observations on barnacles.
Would like to meet JDH in London.
R. L. Tait has requested CD send his [Tait’s] paper on Nepenthes to Royal Society. CD considers this a nuisance.
Certificate for G. J. Romanes.
Francis’ experiments on mechanism of twisted seeds.
JDH shares CD’s annoyance with R. L. Tait.
Has identified awned carpels for CD.
Sports of Paritium.
Suggests extending Francis’ experiments with glycerine on twisted seeds, to Mimosa.
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.
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.