Asks GB to vote for "a distant connexion of mine" at Athenaeum, and to mention this to Hooker.
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Asks GB to vote for "a distant connexion of mine" at Athenaeum, and to mention this to Hooker.
Asks GB for help in clearing up his problems about Leguminosae, in connection with his "wild bit of speculation on the crossing of plants" [see Natural selection, p. 71].
Thanks GB for information on Leguminosae, especially about those with apetalous flowers and almost without anthers.
Thanks GB for information on apetalous flowers. "The whole order [Leguminosae] will remain my detestable enemies."
Thanks GB for his help on naturalised plants; comments on spreading of plants.
Wants to quote GB on the names of species and varieties of Silene on which C. F. von Gärtner experimented.
Thinks GB will be disappointed in his book [Natural selection]. "It will be grievously too hypothetical."
For his studies on fertility of crosses, asks GB to mark a list of pairs of Cucubalus as to whether they are varieties of the same species, or distinct species.
Thanks GB for his answers [to 2184], which were as explicit as he expected. Cucubalus viscosus and italicus are extremely sterile together; all other forms extremely fertile. Other instances of infertility found by Gärtner.
At Hooker’s request, sends his copy of Gärtner [Bastarderzeugung (1849)], "shamefully scribbled over".