Counted seeds by tens. Sends some.
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Counted seeds by tens. Sends some.
Discusses his new microscope.
Discusses WED’s growing interest in botany; would be grateful for certain observations.
Is much concerned about Horace’s illness.
Has sent Orchids MS to printers
and will work a little at dimorphism.
Thanks WED for eyeglass.
Reports on health of Horace and family matters.
Has finished Orchids.
Hooker has written about WED’s going to Kew.
Wants WED to forward dried Malaxis to G. C. Oxenden.
Has been dissecting Viola flowers.
[Letter from Emma Darwin to WED, verso p. 3.]
Found 27 flowers of Orchis latifolia and in 16 of them were dead flies of one particular kind.
Suggests sending plant specimens. Asks about visit of Emma and the boys.
Leonard has scarlet fever; CD is sorry WED is unwell.
WED’s travel plans; an insect he has observed on Orchis maculata.
Discusses dimorphic plants, valerian and Erythraea. Would like to look at them; suggests WED draw up a paper on them.
Reports some observations on the fertilisation of wheat which WED might follow up.
WED reports on studying the pollen of grass and Valerian through his microscope.
Lenny [Leonard Darwin]’s illness.
Polymorphism in valerian and Lythrum salicaria.
Leonard’s illness.
Polymorphism in valerian and Erythraea.
Sends observations on Valeriana officinalis.
Asks WED to send some specimens [of Lythrum?].
[Letter from Emma Darwin to WED on verso.]
Asks for advice on where a local chemist can send his brother’s meteorological observations from Missouri.
WED has been collecting Lythrum plants. Numerical proportions of the three forms.
Sends specimens of the three forms of Lythrum. Remarks on the numerical proportions of different forms.