Will hope to be able to send Vanilla flowers in a day or two.
How is CD after his tremendous effect on the placid Linneans? ["Sexual forms of Catasetum", Collected papers 2: 63–70; read 3 Apr 1862.]
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Will hope to be able to send Vanilla flowers in a day or two.
How is CD after his tremendous effect on the placid Linneans? ["Sexual forms of Catasetum", Collected papers 2: 63–70; read 3 Apr 1862.]
Cannot accept invitation at present.
Is sending a wild honeycomb from Timor.
Has several specimens illustrating dimorphism in insects that he would be happy to leave where CD could examine them.
Discusses the ant genera Formica and Atta, and the origin of the two forms of workers commonly found in the species of these genera.
Suggests CD use a tabular form for Army doctors to write their observations on, and suggests it be limited to malaria, yellow fever, and dysentery.
Now believes flowers of Fumariaceae must be self-fertilised.
Planning a piece on dimorphism in the Natural History Review ["On the two forms, or dimorphic condition, in the species of Primula … by Charles Darwin", n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].
Observations on Campanula dimorphism.
AM did not borrow a Samuel Scudder pamphlet from CD; in fact he was not aware of its existence.
Is it convenient for him and Willy to come to Down from Thursday to Sunday?
JL is going on a geological excursion with Joseph Prestwich and John Evans.
Accepts CD’s invitation.
Certain there are three forms of Primula sinensis.
Distinguishes two kinds of floral dimorphism: that affecting sexual organs and that affecting outer envelopes.
Sends letter via his brother visiting England. Awaits continuation of CD’s "wonderful book", which excites much interest.
Comments on Civil War which he expects will end slavery.
Encloses a passage from his book, The botany of the voyage of H.M.S. "Herald" [1852–7].
Discusses possibility of publishing work on flora of Hawaiian Islands.
The Director-General of the Army Medical Department [J. B. Gibson] agrees to have CD’s circular distributed to Army surgeons in India and the West Indies, with reply being voluntary. [See Descent 1: 244–5 n.]
Discusses insects of south temperate S. America and New Zealand, especially with respect to the distribution and origin of Chilean Carabi, and has sent for a German monograph to learn about the eleven species he has found.
He refers to Chilean poverty in butterflies; scanty New Zealand insect fauna.
An analysis of south temperate insects is desirable, but the small English collections make him afraid to undertake it.
Their views on transformism differ a great deal, as CD says, but perhaps not as much as CD thinks. Sending his [Physiologie comparée: métamorphoses de l’homme et des animaux (1862)].
Has looked for [Ophrys] arachnites for CD, but it is too early in the season.
Discusses Leschenaultia, finds no stigmatic surface in the indusium.
Gives information on where to obtain paper for drying plants and where to obtain a microscope.
Has dissected Leschenaultia biloba flowers. Finds no stigmatic surface in the indusium. Describes what is the apparent stigma but has found no pollen-tubes to confirm it as the real one.
About Quiz and [Horace Darwin’s] health.
Asks whether CD has tried W. B. Tegetmeier’s beehives.