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Studying moraines.
On Lubbock’s book [see 4860], and Lyell’s apology. Recapitulates whole affair.
W. E. H. Lecky [Rise of rationalism in Europe (1865)] and other reading.
Spencer’s observations are wrong on umbellifers, his reasoning partially right.
Natural History Review is all but defunct.
Wants to borrow money to buy stock in the bridge over the Itchen.
Did not intend to persuade CD against publishing Pangenesis. Will not take the responsibility, nor risk being made a horrible example 50 years hence.
JS has now taken post of Curator of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta.
Wishes to vindicate himself of the charge that he pursued his experiments at Edinburgh to the detriment of his work.
Apologises for poor quality of his Verbascum paper, which was written from his notes during the passage to India [J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 36 (1865) pt 2: 145–74].
Is reading CD’s "Climbing plants".
The Civil War is ended; slavery is dead.
J. D. Hooker will not be able to visit CD because of ill health.
J. D. Hooker is ill with rheumatic fever.
W. J. Hooker is dead and was buried yesterday.
Sends an allotment of shares which he presumes are Emma’s.
He will soon take over editorship of Gardeners’ Chronicle and hopes for CD’s continued support.
Reports on J. D. Hooker’s health.
Sends a "Lanc & York" [railway share?].
They have left Kew to improve J. D. Hooker’s health.
Reading Carl Vogt [Lectures on man (1864)].
Vogt, though anti-Lamarck, is converted to Darwinism.
J. D. Hooker’s health is improving;
he has been offered the Directorship at Kew.
Thanks CD for paper ["Climbing plants"].
Reports case of variation becoming at once hereditary – a crested blackbird with crested young.
Discusses the climbing movements of plants and describes experiment to establish a mechanical explanation for double spiralling movements of tendrils.
J. D. Hooker is recovering from his ill health.
On his reading: George Eliot,
T. F. Jamieson on Scottish glaciation.
Glad Lyell–Lubbock affair is over.
His grief over loss of father and child.
Expects to publish an account of his journeys soon.
Asks CD’s support for his Royal Society candidacy.
Goldfields he discovered are now being worked.
His second son [C. W. Fox] has a studentship at Christ Church, Oxford.
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