From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 96–7
Summary:
Henry Holland is taking an active part in helping JDH in the Ayrton affair.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Henry Holland is taking an active part in helping JDH in the Ayrton affair.
CD is considering repeating experiments on melastomads in which different pollen sizes produced differing seedling sizes.
Responds to JDH’s query on differences in pollen within the same species.
JDH suggests [Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone] Grant Duff become a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Asks after Grant Duff's continental tour with his wife. Complains that the Ayrton controversy is deteriorating further, JDH has brought it to the attention of Prime minister Gladstone & predicts it will end with the dismissal of himself or [Acton Smee] Ayrton.