Discusses corrections to Variation.
Extends invitation to E. Ray Lankester to visit Down.
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Discusses corrections to Variation.
Extends invitation to E. Ray Lankester to visit Down.
WTT-D and E. R. Lankester wish to visit CD.
Has corrected some references for new edition of Variation.
Would be obliged for correction of references in Variation [1st ed.].
Encloses corrections and notes on Variation [1st ed.].
Reports on Schrankia aculeata in which pinna and pinnule are sensitive, but, unlike Mimosa pudica, rachis does not move.
CD obliged about the Schrankia
and thanks WTT-D for details of last number of Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Suggests WTT-D read account of Bignonia capreolata in forthcoming Climbing plants.
Plans experiments [on Melastomataceae]. Describes similar experiment performed on Monochaetum. Interested in meaning of differently coloured stamens.
PS concerning Imantophyllum.
Thanks for information. Absorption of ammonium carbonate by glandular hairs.
It has been empirically established at Kew that insular plants tend to be heteromorphic, plants with entire leaves tending to produce divided leaves.
Encloses manuscript [missing] by George King ["Sport in Paritium", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 15 (1877): 101–3].
Sends thanks to Hooker for correction of name. Mentions other errors.
Wants Imantophyllum for crossing experiments.
Is glad WTT-D thinks George King’s notes worth sending to the Linnean Society.
Discusses blackballing of E. R. Lankester [at Linnean Society]. Reports on his attempts to persuade other Fellows to support Lankester’s election.
CD’s attempts to get support for Lankester among Fellows of the Linnean Society. He has encountered opposition to the Council.
H. N. Moseley says [in "Notes on plants collected and observed at the Admiralty Islands", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 15 (1877): 77] pigeons eject seeds in fit state for germination. He regards pigeons as providing most efficient means of transport in Malayan Archipelago.
CD’s collected notes on geographical distribution would make a good book.
Congratulates WTT-D on [election of E. Ray Lankester to] Linnean Society.
Mentions visit to Royal Society.
Pleased to see George Bentham looking well.
Responds to CD’s request for the names of species from which Cineraria varieties supplied to him have sprung. [Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 335 n.]
Asks for titles of papers on structure of Nepenthes for use by R. L. Tait. Mentions paper by RLT.
Thanks for references for R. L. Tait.
References to figures of Coryanthes.