Henslow’s death.
What a contrast C. C. Babington will be as Professor of Botany at Cambridge.
Beaton not to be trusted.
CD may switch from Athenæum to London Review & Wkly J. Polit.
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Henslow’s death.
What a contrast C. C. Babington will be as Professor of Botany at Cambridge.
Beaton not to be trusted.
CD may switch from Athenæum to London Review & Wkly J. Polit.
CD’s doubts on biography of Henslow. Writing recollections of Cambridge days at JDH’s request.
Has written recollections of Henslow [Collected papers 2: 72–4].
CD’s changing taste in periodical literature.
William Darwin’s partnership in bank.
Work: variation and orchids.
Many mutual acquaintances are ill.
Trip to Torquay.
Superiority of Journal of Horticulture to Gardeners’ Chronicle for CD’s purposes.
Has worked out homologies of orchids’ pollinia and rostellum.
On W. H. Harvey’s review ["The natural evolution of organic species considered", Dublin Hosp. Gaz. 8 (1861): 146–52].
Orchids from Kew.
JDH’s income problems.
On orchids supplied by Kew; homologies of pollen and rostellum.
Puzzled by function of orchids’ rostellum.
Orchids’ pollen concentrated in two pollinia; hence one flower can fertilise only two others. This may explain precision of orchid pollination mechanisms.
Has found function of rostellum: modified stigma guarantees attachment of pollinia.
Personal regards.
William Darwin will make a botanist.
Orchid anatomy. Requests Lindley’s work on orchids [The genera and species of orchidaceous plants (1830–40)].
After much crossing, has worked out meaning of dimorphism in Primula.
CD’s orchid paper is to become orchid book [Orchids].
Primula paper is done [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Bates agrees with CD on neuter ants.
Orchids.
Repeating experiment of C. F. v. Gärtner to study Huxley’s idea of physiological species.
List of Australian plants that have become naturalised in the Nilgiris [India] and are turning out the native trees.
Query on orchid homology.
Critical of F. A. Bauer on orchids [Illustrations of orchidaceous plants (1830–8)].
Orchid anatomy.
Orchid anatomy: movement in Mormodes column.