Relates events at Down;
asks WED to make some observations on Lythrum.
His present hobby-horse is tendrils.
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Relates events at Down;
asks WED to make some observations on Lythrum.
His present hobby-horse is tendrils.
Describes experiments on rotation of tendrils and shoots.
CD’s great interest in JS’s work on fertility of Primula crosses.
Thanks for Passiflora trials.
"By no means modify even in slightest degree any result."
CD wishes he had counted rather than weighed Primula seeds.
Asks M. J. Berkeley to identify the microscopical spherical bodies CD found in drops of yellowish rain-water that fell on his garden in a brief shower.
Will be obliged if Flower examines specimens. States questions he wants answered.
CD is particularly struck by WFK’s observations on Corsican and N. American subspecies in his paper ["On the geographical distribution of European Rhopalocera", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 3d ser. 1 (1862–3): [!?bib has 1862–4] 481–92]. Thinks it would be interesting for WFK to examine specimens from the Shetland Islands, for even faint trace of differentiation.
WBT progressing with breeding experiments for CD.
CD making quicker progress with Variation.
Requests tendril-bearing plants.
Sends F. Hildebrand’s paper for publication by the Linnean Society or in Natural History Review.
Acknowledges receipt of JvH’s letters and report of his expedition. Congratulates him on its success.
Has sent Origin.
There is hardly a place in the world as interesting as New Zealand with respect to geographical distribution.
Will quote the case of the ducks that nest in trees.
Is working hard on Variation.
Discusses geology of Brazil.
Asks for Brazilian stamps for his son.
Differences between tendrils derived from leaves and those derived from branches.
CD on Asa Gray’s attitude on the Civil War.
Encourages JS to continue work on coloured primrose. No one has noticed this since Gärtner. CD will send his own data for JS’s use and will read MS when ready. Advises JS to repeat experiments if evidence is weak – for his reputation’s sake and for satisfaction at fully establishing a fact.
Treviranus made a slip of pen in writing of Primula longiflora as short-styled.
Asa Gray writes as if Civil War were a holy war.
J. E. Renan on Jesus [Vie de Jésus (1863)].
Literature on tendrils of Cucurbita is contradictory.
Comments on FH’s paper ["Fruchtbildung der Orchideen", Bot. Ztg. 21 (1863): 329–33, 337–45]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History will publish it in September [3d ser. 12 (1863): 169–74].
Thanks GHKT for Limnanthemum seed.
Comments on his view of algal reproduction.
Discusses flower of Cassia.
Sends photograph of himself.
Discusses rudimentary sixth toe of frogs.