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The Charles Darwin Collection
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Seeks investment advice.
Discusses exchange of photographs with Édouard Claparède, "for whom I feel the highest respect".
Has been looking at separation of sexes in poplars.
Interested in reversion.
Does not understand all CD said on inheritance.
JDH now remembers that Origin was "published" some time before it was "distributed" and therefore appeared prior to his own essay [see also 2478].
Impossible to say whether some Dipterocarpaceae survived a cold period or have developed since.
THH’s efforts to obtain Copley Medal for CD fail. Thanks THH for kind words of sympathy.
Would like WED to send a specimen of the unusual plant organ of which he sent a drawing.
Will be glad to have CD.
Notes on drops of nectar on sepals of cypripedium.
Returns book by Friedrich Rolle. Author has sent copies.
Has been copying out references from Natural History Review [possibly D. Oliver, "The structure of the stem in dicotyledons; being references to the literature of the subject", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 298–329].
Suggests DO study high incidence of separate sexes in freshwater plants.
CD overwhelmed by THH’s praise.
Agrees with his reservations about species theory but not wholly about sterility and gives his reasons for differing.
On Natural History Review, Hugh Falconer, and R. Owen.
Has written a review [Collected papers 2: 87–92] of H. W. Bates’s paper ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566].
Asks correspondent whether, when growing hollyhocks, he finds it necessary to space out the different varieties to prevent crossing and thus to obtain true seed [see Variation 2: 108].
Notes, calculations, and diagrams on phyllotaxy.
Huxley’s lectures [Man’s place in nature (1863)]; he would be a scientific H. T. Buckle, if he were more careful.
Asks CD what the evidence is for inheritance of acquired characteristics.
Thanks for letting Horwood superintend erection of hothouse.
Discusses the female parts of the Primula flower; the true character of the free placenta is not completely understood.
Sends description of Chrysosplene, asks about glands.
Two criticisms (one by Henrietta Darwin) of THH’s Lectures [to working men].
Thanks AG for Cypripedium and Mitchella.
Plans to investigate pollination of Cypripedium.
Has finished Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Would welcome facts on "bud-variations".
Hears that Cinchona is dimorphic.
Wishes to order Botanische Zeitung for 2 and 9 January 1863.
Indignant over Owen’s conduct as described in Hugh Falconer’s article on elephants ["On the American fossil elephant of the regions bordering the Gulf of Mexico", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 43–114].