Thanks CD for advice to watch the action and not only the structure [of plants].
Red tape leaves no time for botany.
New ministry laudably attempting economies.
Justifies his use of term "degraded" by comparing contrivances for cross-fertilisation in different species of Viola.
Thanks CD for lesson that it is wrong to call any plant which lives and thrives "degraded".
Speculates on the function of the separate stamen of papilionaceous flowers.
Will work on papilionaceous flowers since CD encourages it. Discusses function of hairs in certain plants.
Asks CD’s opinion of a paper he has written on papilionaceous flowers.
Federico Delpino’s book has very nearly all that THF has found and a great deal more.
On the fertilisation of Tacsonia and Passiflora.
Encloses a poem, "The Biological Teleologist", written after reading Delpino.
Sends notes on observations of Passiflora and Tacsonia; Hooker thinks they would be worth reading at Linnean Society.
Observations on Passiflora.
Hildebrand on geraniums.
Sends a "guess" about Mimosa leaf structure as an answer to one of CD’s questions.
Has found a Passiflora princeps.
Agrees that it is wise to delay [publishing?] on Passiflora.
Puts queries he wants CD to send [to Fritz Müller] on bees visiting flowers in winter.
On death of his wife. Botany a solace.
Not discouraged by F. Müller’s Passiflora.
Observations on insects visiting barberries.
Has sent F. Müller "a long screed" about the Passiflora.
Has procured a Passiflora flower at last. Structure suited for humming-birds rather than bees.
Returning CD’s books.
Sympathises with women’s lot in life.
Forgot to send books.
Saw Miss [Henrietta] Darwin; chastised her for being out when book [Descent] has not yet appeared.
Parallel between CD’s account of morality [in Descent], of social instinct preceding selfishness, and Henry Maine’s account of notions of property of a community preceding individual property [in Ancient law (1861)].
