Sends an omitted reference to an article by Dr Ascherson [Bot. Ztg. (1871): 444 et seq.] for Cross and self-fertilisation.
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Sends an omitted reference to an article by Dr Ascherson [Bot. Ztg. (1871): 444 et seq.] for Cross and self-fertilisation.
Sending the membership certificate for Francis Maitland Balfour.
Discusses some dimorphic plants.
Sends specimens of Rhamnus but his few specimens of Leucosmia are very poor.
Thanks for volume on craniology
and for suggestion to Austrian Government that CD receive volumes on Novara voyage.
Has sent Balfour’s certificate on to Ray Lankester, and encloses a certificate for Moseley for CD to sign.
Calls attention to a paper by Emil Bessels on Eskimos, which he extracts [see 10737].
CD has cited GR for material that is not his in Variation, 2d ed., 1: 469, on transmission of mutilation.
Has read and greatly admires CD’s latest book, Cross and self-fertilisation; seeks permission to translate it into French and to add some annotations. [EMH’s translation was published in 1877.]
No papers on heterostyly have appeared since 1873.
Studying anatomy of the Irish pig.
Emil Bessels’ paper is in Archiv für Anthropologie 8 (1875): 107. He connects a band of poor Eskimos encountered at Smith’s Sound with glacial man.
Describes new journal, Kosmos, to be edited by Ernst Krause. Asks CD to lend his name to journal.
Has sent Anthropogenie, 3d ed.
Will send his study [Biologische Studien, pt 2: Studien zur Gastraea-theorie (1877)] in January.
Thanks CD for hospitality at Down.
Thanks for EH’s Anthropogenie, 3d ed.
Sends Cross and self-fertilisation.
Would be honoured to have Cross and self fertilisation translated into French by EH; he has written to his French publisher, Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald.
EH’s notes will add interest and he would like to read them.
Is happy to sign F. M. Balfour’s application for admission to the Royal Society.
Remembers CD from Edinburgh days.
Acknowledges presentation copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.
Thanks for visit to Down.
Praise for CD’s theories.
Much pleased with CD’s book [Cross and self-fertilisation]. Is struck by width and caution of his generalisations and by the application of experiment to processes of life hitherto merely observed.
Asks for details of dimorphism in Sethia from Thwaites, Enumeratio plantarum Zeylaniae [1864]. [See Forms of flowers, p. 122.]
Considers some flowers especially adapted for self-fertilisation, and believes all flowers are self-fertilising under some conditions. Gives examples of plants in which he believes all flowers are cleistogamous. Believes self-fertilisation is the primordial condition of flowering plants.
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JDH writes that he is waiting to hear whether the Royal Society has accepted the proposal that it undertake the work on Sir Wyville Thomson's specimens [from the HMS 'Challenger' expedition]. If the suggestion is approved JDH will submit a detailed plan. The plan has already been prepared, a complex procedure as a work of such scope has never been undertaken before. The plan will ask for £3500 for 1877-1878 for the publication of the work. JDH asks Smith to authorise the submission of the plan to the Navy[?].