Nathan Hubbersty [of Cambridge days] is very ill.
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Nathan Hubbersty [of Cambridge days] is very ill.
Tells CD he is recovering from the illness with which he was afflicted when CD visited.
Visiting W. D. Fox.
Sends specimen of Cardamine pratensis,
and an account of a striped horse.
Discusses Pangenesis.
Has returned to religion and has been reflecting on God’s mercies, one of which CD should remember from about 1828 at Bodnant.
Congratulates CD on success at Cambridge [of George Darwin].
Would like CD to study the anomalous Cardamine pratensis.
Has experimented with some success in growing twigs with buds
and a grass plant from which a ptarmigan had extracted the core.
Has some Utricularia minor for CD. Has found the bladders on U. vulgaris are not floats.
Thanks CD for book [Descent, 2d ed.].
Observations on flotation of Utricularia vulgaris.