Thanks RIL for notes.
Asks about movement of Euphorbia.
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Thanks RIL for notes.
Asks about movement of Euphorbia.
Agrees to look over MS.
Approves terms used in LAE’s manuscript. Discusses relative advantages of self-fertilisation and cross-fertilisation.
Thanks LAE for pointing out erratum [in Cross and self-fertilisation].
Thanks CTEvS for photographs of human abnormality;
regrets death of Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm.
Asks for some seeds of coniferous plants. Wants to examine their first leaves.
Comments on GJR’s lecture on evolution.
Regrets failure of graft experiments.
Hopes GJR will not give up on Pangenesis. Mentions article by Gustav Jäger on Pangenesis.
Discusses planting onions for experiment.
Would like the letters from grandfather [Erasmus Darwin] to J. A. H. Reimarus to be published.
Asks for the wing of a goose said to have transmitted effects of an injury by hereditary descent.
Cannot allow WCM to pay extra charge for glass. Rooms all very comfortable.
Young Belgian students [L. A. Errera and Gustave Gevaert] ask CD to read their paper, which summarises Cross and self-fertilisation. They criticise CD’s views on the comparative effects of crossing flowers on the same stem and fertilisation of a flower by its own pollen ["Sur la structure et les modes de fécondation des fleurs", Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 17 (1878): 38–181, 182–248].
Sending MS.
Used Anton Kerner’s nomenclature for designating crosses.
Thanks CD for Forms of flowers.
CD has made clear that in Cross and self-fertilisation he had not intended to suggest that autogamie (fertilisation of a flower by its own pollen) is superior to gitonogamie (fertilisation of a flower by one on the same plant).