Will be sure to send the Cytisus and Laburnum blooms when they flower.
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Will be sure to send the Cytisus and Laburnum blooms when they flower.
Has written his Naudin–hybridism article [Pop. Sci. Rev. 5 (1866): 304–13]. Would like CD to criticise proofs.
Will return books borrowed from CD.
Sends plants from France.
J. B. E. Bornet of Antibes, working in G. A. Thuret’s garden, finds Cistus hybrids do not follow the old dictum of having the mother’s foliage and the father’s habit. Bornet is engaged in long-term study.
JTM seeks invitation to Down.
Printing [of 4th edition of Origin] nearly complete. Will print 1000 copies which, at present rate of sale, may last three to five years.
Plans to come to Down on 27 May.
Accepts invitation for 23 June.
Sends a sketch of the haricot climbing the shoot of the plum-tree [see 4866].
Hopes to see CD at the [Horticultural] Congress on Wednesday [30 May].
Sends data on movement direction of Wisteria shoots.
JDH sends a list of the principal confirmatory evidences of CD’s theory which he has prepared at W. R. Grove’s request for Nottingham speech ["Presidential address", Rep. BAAS 26 (1866): liii–lxxxi].
On reflection, in view of the extensive additions CD has made to Origin, has decided to print 1500 copies [of 4th ed.].
Sends flowers of buckthorn [Rhamnus catharticus] collected on Isle of Wight.
Sends some specimens of three kinds of buckthorn.
He is not grieved at CD’s omissions of his [JDH’s] work [from Origin, 4th ed.]. It proves nothing – claims only to be illustration of using CD’s methods.
In London for the Botanical Congress; regrets missing CD.
Lyell and CD have mistaken H. Lecoq’s position on glaciers. He has not denied the possibility of a glacial period, only that decreased temperature is needed for their extension.
Recommends F. J. Ruprecht on vegetable detritus in the black earth chernozem of Russia.
Sends blooms of Cytisus purpureus-elongatus.
Identifies a plant.
CD will not find Hermann Schacht’s Lehrbuch [der Anatomie und Physiologie der Gewächse (1856–9)] at the Linnean Society Library.
Sends proofs [of "On hybridization among plants", Pop. Sci. Rev. 5 (1866): 304–13].
Regrets delay in returning CD’s books.
Encourages CD to make "disparaging remarks".
Thanks for criticism of proofs of his paper [see 5117].
Not sure whether CD believes in reversion and would like a positive statement as this is the one point C. V. Naudin especially observed. Naudin offers his remarks on ovules as a matter to be proved ["Nouvelles recherches sur l’hybridité", Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. 1 (1865): 25–176].
Will take earlier train to Down.
In response to CD’s request for bud-sports, he sends a piece of a fern-leaved beech.
Has altered paper according to CD’s comments.
Returns books.