Reports on French translations of Cross and self-fertilisation, Climbing plants, and Insectivorous plants.
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Reports on French translations of Cross and self-fertilisation, Climbing plants, and Insectivorous plants.
Thanks EH for album of photographs of German scientists.
Pleased and honoured by WTT-D’s review ["Darwin on fertilisation", Nature 15 (1876–77): 329–32]. Comments on review.
Thanks for the honour conferred upon him [see 10826]; it is quite beyond his deserts.
Negotiations for loan of drawings [of Lepidoptera] have failed.
Praises AG’s abstract of Cross and self-fertilisation [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 13 (1877): 125–41].
Hopes soon to finish with dimorphic plants.
Corrects an important misprint in English edition of Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 275, line six from top [but see 10877].
Sends correction to p. 275 of Cross and self fertilisation [but see letter to Édouard Heckel, 4 March 1877].
CD, who has acted as treasurer of the Down Friendly Club for the last 27 years, urges the members not to dissolve the Club, but to continue it and retain about £1000 of the funds on hand to ensure its safety and ability to give assistance to members when they are ill or invalided, or to provide for their burial when dead.
Replies to some of George Henslow’s criticisms [of Cross and self-fertilisation] made in his article ["Fertilisation of plants", Gard. Chron. n.s. 7 (1877): 203–4].
Requests CD’s autograph. [Translation of letter made by O. Dill, see 10871.]
Thanks AD-P for his articles [Wesen und Begründung der Abstammungs- und Zuchtwahltheorie (1877)] and the eulogistic manner in which he mentions CD’s name.
Thanks CD for Orchids. Has written a notice for Chelmsford Chronicle.
Finds some botanical observations on inflorescences.
Édouard Heckel of Grenoble is translating Cross and self-fertilisation.
Expression has sold out; wants a new edition.
Attributes the Castilian accent of speech of deaf and dumb men to imitation of their teachers’ lip movements.
Thanks CD for his advice. No doubt one may be misled by a few experiments in matters on which many forces come into play. Describes his plans to observe the flowering of 23 plants of Lychnis gilhago raised from a single capsule.
Gives an example of atavism in American cattle.
Was CD already convinced of evolution when he published Journal of researches?
Photograph album will be late coming.
Evolutionary magazine to appear in March under title of Kosmos.
Thanks OZ for a "magnificent Album".
On Beagle voyage CD believed in permanence of species. Had occasional vague doubts. In autumn of 1836 saw how many facts indicated common descent of species. In 1837 opened notebook to record facts.
Thanks for Cross and self-fertilisation.
His work on poppy varieties confirms increased vigour with crossing.
JS is carrying out opium poppy experiments CD suggested. He is busy with opium duties. Observing many fields of poppies, day and night, JS finds them remarkably free of insects. Believes they are wind-pollinated and that varieties have prepotent pollen since he has shown they do not cross naturally.
Plans to send a paper on Cyclosis to Linnean Society.