Asks JDH to find young imperfect flowers of Hoya. CD has observed seed set although there was no trace of anthers.
Asks JDH to find young imperfect flowers of Hoya. CD has observed seed set although there was no trace of anthers.
JDH looking for Hoya for CD.
Hookers tried to visit Down on foot, but weather was too inclement.
Notes on part of CD’s species sketch.
Will come to 7 Park St. on Wednesday for a palaver on distribution, species mutability, migration, etc.
JDH prepares Anniversary Address to the Royal Society [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1876): 339–62].
Return of Challenger.
Illness has delayed his departure. Will try to call on JDH on Thursday.
He has examined Hoya flowers with Bentham and Oliver, but they are not satisfied about the five processes alternating with the sepals. [See Forms of flowers, pp. 331–2.] Sends specimens of plants.
Babington’s surprise at JDH’s advocacy of Darwinian views at Norwich [BAAS meeting].
Criticism of the behaviour of the trustees of the British Museum [in the Challenger affair].
Thanks for JDH’s notes on species sketch. Proposes to drive to Kew to discuss them with him.
Plants received from JDH.
Requests he verify an identification by Fritz Müller.
Complains at Albert Günther’s imputations against Charles Wyville Thomson [as a result of the dispute between Thomson and the British Museum, regarding the disposal of the specimens from the Challenger].
JDH has sent a short-styled Forsythia from Kew. CD surmises that all Forsythia at Kew may be short-styled, hence he is curious to know whether they set seed.
Notes variation in style and stamen length in Forsythia.
Health permitting, proposes to visit Kew on Friday.
Health bad, cannot get to Kew.
Will send Nulliporae to [L. A.?] Reeve.
JDH’s proposed India trip.
Will sorely miss discussions with JDH on species theory.
CD is getting on wretchedly with cirripedes.
[Copy made by CD’s amanuensis.] Discusses the rarity of intermediate forms.
Must look after his wife, so is unable to come to visit.
JDH discusses his and others’ experiments on survival of seeds. Impressed with resistance of some seeds and rapid decomposition of others. He wonders about "vitality" in the abstract.
CD notes growth of Royal Society may force it to hire officers.
Speculates on cold resistance of bacterial germs.
Will communicate to Royal Society Frank’s paper on the ingestion of solid particles by the protoplasmic protrusions of Dipsacus glands.
CD working on plant dimorphism.
JDH recounts discussion at Royal Society over Günther’s paper on distribution and affinities of gigantic tortoises ["Description of the living and extinct races of gigantic land-tortoises, Parts III and IV", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 25 (1876–7): 506–7]. Huxley suggests they are Miocene relics.
Royal Society will publish Frank’s Dipsacus paper [but see 10971 and 11073].
Thiselton-Dyer will review Cross and self-fertilisation.