Has come to Abinger Hall for a rest after Insectivorous plants, soon to appear. Is sick of the accursed subject.
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Has come to Abinger Hall for a rest after Insectivorous plants, soon to appear. Is sick of the accursed subject.
Thiselton-Dyer’s appointment has come.
Wants to discuss insectivorous plants and get some experiments going.
Rejoices at [Thiselton-Dyer’s] appointment.
Solicits JDH and others at Kew for signatures to nomination of Francis Darwin for membership of Linnean Society.
His appreciation of Insectivorous plants, especially Utricularia section.
JDH will arrive by train on Saturday.
Will be delayed on Saturday because of unveiling of a monument to Sir J. Franklin at Westminster Abbey.
JDH reports his battle with Lord Henry Lennox over whether to locate new Herbarium on the Queen’s or public part of Garden.
Shares Hooker’s feelings about Douglas Galton and Lord Henry Lennox.
Bored with preparing new editions.
R. L. Tait has requested CD send his [Tait’s] paper on Nepenthes to Royal Society. CD considers this a nuisance.
Certificate for G. J. Romanes.
Francis’ experiments on mechanism of twisted seeds.
JDH shares CD’s annoyance with R. L. Tait.
Has identified awned carpels for CD.
Sports of Paritium.
Suggests extending Francis’ experiments with glycerine on twisted seeds, to Mimosa.
Has decided to send R. L. Tait’s paper to the Royal Society.
Will try glycerine on Mimosa but doubts it will have an effect.
Gives directions for growing plants he has sent and corrects CD’s taxonomy.
Describes observations by his son Horace on the extreme sensitivity of twisted seeds to moisture.
Comments on Hermann Müller’s article on the structure of Gunnera flowers.
JDH concerned about preparations for [his address at] Royal Society [anniversary] meeting [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1876): 72–94].
JDH has heard from Asa Gray, who approves of the botany primer [Botany (1876)].
Comments on R. L. Tait’s claimed isolation of digestive ferments from Nepenthes.
E. R. Lankester is in danger of being black-balled for admission to the Linnean Society; Thiselton-Dyer is in the midst of the fight.
Asks JDH to try to come to luncheon if he is in London.