Invites CD to Kew.
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Invites CD to Kew.
Asks opinion of his proposal to Bartholomew Price to translate and publish C. K. Sprengel [Das entdeckte Geheimniss (1793)] and Hermann Müller [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)] in one volume.
Supports Torbitt. Keenly aware of danger of growing crops from a single variety. Torbitt’s paper to Belfast BAAS meeting ["On the potato-disease", Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 134] was sat upon.
Has written to Farrer in support of Torbitt’s grant.
Resistance of Liberian coffee to "fly" and susceptibility to fungus.
Has been consulting with Mrs Lyell about the possibility of publishing Lyell’s letters. Asks CD’s opinion on the matter.
JDH’s scheme for lowering F.R.S. fees by creating a fund through membership subscription.
JDH details the subscription fund’s finances.
Has finished lecture for Royal Society on N. American plant distribution.
Burdened with Anniversary Address to the Royal Society.
Quips that even Huxley is running out of speeches.
Frank asked to summarise work with CD for use in JDH’s Royal Society address.
Work with A. Gray shows Colorado plants closer to Altai than to E. or W. America.
Work with J. Ball shows Moroccan plants very distinct from nearby Canaries.
JDH on Royal Commission to Paris Exhibition.
Botanical evidence is against F. B. White’s origin of St Helena fauna. JDH holds flora is S. African. Since plants must arrive before insects, if fauna is Palearctic then flora survived glacial period. Flora not Miocene since old and relic orders are absent. Suggests S. African west coastal mountains as insects’ origin.
Congratulates CD on the Anthony Rich bequest.
Sad but relieved to retire as President of the Royal Society.
Describes battle with Treasury over use of an empty house at Kew.
Urges Frank to reconsider his refusal of Cambridge Examinership.
JDH criticises John Ball’s theory of origin of higher plants in Carboniferous highlands, where low carbon dioxide levels permitted survival.
JDH looking for a gardener for CD’s unusual needs.
JDH requests specimens from Miss [Sophy] Wedgwood.
Congratulations on Erasmus Darwin; likes CD’s part better than Ernst Krause’s.
Received false notice of Asa Gray’s death.
Gray and JDH engaged in comparing widely separated but floristically similar regions.
Argues against pension for Wallace because of his spiritualism; the underhanded way he brought about discussion of spiritualism at BAAS; his pocketing money from a bet on the sphericity of the earth; his lack of absolute poverty.
The debt of plant geography to voyages may be JDH’s topic at BAAS meeting [at Swansea].
Photographs from New Zealand forwarded.
Can Alphonse de Candolle see CD?
Asa Gray at Kew; will meet JDH in Italy in December.
Praise for Movement in plants, lately arrived.
Praise for Wallace’s Island life
and astonishment that he could be a spiritualist.
Differs with Wallace on age of SW. Australian flora. JDH ascribes its peculiarities to isolation by an inland sea.