Approves the type for Orchids [2d ed.]. The printer should advise Murray that it will be 300 pages.
Approves the type for Orchids [2d ed.]. The printer should advise Murray that it will be 300 pages.
Sends an article for FD.
Is glad he is able to work on his teasel paper [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1878): 4–8]; suggests some observations FD could make.
Thanks for papers and letter; has been working in the mornings on teasel.
Sending specimens of Drosera grown without insects.
Discusses views of [Alexander James] Maule on potatoes.
Discusses graft-hybrids.
Asks for reference to an article on a mandrill.
Would like sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation if it is not already out.
His brother, George, reports from Calcutta a case of a man whose hands are divided like a cow’s foot.
Has seen notice on Empetrum but cannot understand how leaves in bud could act as fly-catchers.
JDH back from his honeymoon.
Finds he has gout, as his father and grandfather had.
Comments on essays by MW [Das Ausland, May 1875]. Criticises his theory of isolation as source of species change: "But my strongest objection to your theory is that it does not explain the manifold adaptations in structure in every organic being". Believes MW has misunderstood his views: "I believe that all the individuals of a species can be slowly modified within the same district … I do not believe that one species will give birth to two or more new species, as long as they are mingled together within the same district."
CD is much obliged to receive Beiträge zur Descendenz-Theorie [1876].
Frank, who has been reclusive and very hardworking, is returning from Wales after a period of mourning for Amy.
Proof sheets [of Cross and self-fertilisation] have been lost.
Asks whether CD’s conclusions on cross- and self-fertilising plants agree with his own as set out in a notice in Nature [14 (1876): 543–4].
Refers him to Nature [14 (1876): 553] in which a Russian doctor [Prof. Poplavsky] contradicts GHD on deaf mutes not being closely interrelated.
Floral structure. The order of the development of the whorls and its relationship to a protandrous or protogynous condition in flowers.
Thanks for the third number of the Geological survey of Victoria.
Sends Drosera plants and details of treatment that led them to form normal leaves when grown without insects.
Sending Drosera plants by post instead of rail because they are rotting.