Thanks for facts on inheritance. May be used if CD corrects 3d ed. [2d ed.] of Variation.
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Thanks for facts on inheritance. May be used if CD corrects 3d ed. [2d ed.] of Variation.
"My health got so bad I could do nothing at Down".
Gives information about migration of male and female birds.
Thanks for [July 1869] issue of Quarterly Review.
Comments on WO’s paper on Salvia [Pop. Sci. Rev. 8 (1869): 261–73], which he admires.
Thanks him for his excellent observations [on Epipactis?]; would like WED to watch for some large insect visiting the plant.
Simeon Habel of New York has returned from Galapagos. CD has asked him to send any plants to JDH.
Reading Nägeli convinces him that it is all-important to learn all about polymorphic or protean genera for the "Laws of Variability".
New Zealand genera are interesting and have perplexed him for years.
Has read paper on snakes. Thinks it is not fascination but fear that makes the victim fall into snake’s power.
An article in North British Review by mathematician against Hooker and Huxley and for William Thomson [P. G. Tait, "Geological time", North Br. Rev. 50 (1869): 406–39]. Feels a conviction that world will be found older than reviewer makes it.
Article on "Design" [by J. B. Mozley] in Quarterly Review [127 (1869): 134–76].
Has JDH studied Drosophyllum?
Would be glad to send GRG a testimonial of his abilities as a naturalist, but is not qualified to express opinion on his works in ornithology or entomology.
Discusses need for cross-fertilisation in Geranium.
Hooker begins to doubt whether Drosophyllum so closely allied to Drosera.