Gives another instance of curious habit in the Butler family.
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Gives another instance of curious habit in the Butler family.
Thanks CD for translation of Climbing plants.
AG is at work on Les enchaînements du monde animal [1878]. Will send CD a copy as soon as it is ready.
Dimorphism and cleistogamy in Hottonia.
AG wants new, unambiguous term for what is now referred to as "dimorphism", "dioecio-dimorphism", or "heterostyly"; proposes "heterogone".
Sends an excerpt from Bulletin of Torrey Botanical Club 2 (June 1871) on Hottonia inflata.
Repeated maize crosses without success: i.e., in most cases yellow and red varieties did not produce fertile offspring.
Thanks for Cross and self-fertilisation.
Fritz Müller has been appointed "Naturalista Viajante" of the Rio de Janeiro Museum, which will help his income greatly.
Thanks for copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.
Reports instances of cross-fertilisation in maize,
and succession of forms of flowers on Isle of Wight.
Asks CD’s suggestions for his second edition of Julius von Sachs’s Text-book of botany.
Questions CD on sale of his books in America by Appleton and other publishers; copyright and translation rights.
He has examined Hoya flowers with Bentham and Oliver, but they are not satisfied about the five processes alternating with the sepals. [See Forms of flowers, pp. 331–2.] Sends specimens of plants.
Babington’s surprise at JDH’s advocacy of Darwinian views at Norwich [BAAS meeting].
Criticism of the behaviour of the trustees of the British Museum [in the Challenger affair].
Adds a point to his previous letter regarding the buoyancy of birds and their soaring capacity.
Sends specimens of Boronia.
Discusses the section on diclinous trees and herbs in CD’s new book [Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 411–13]. CD’s theory that diclinism preceded hermaphroditism seems confirmed.
Asks CD to renew his former offer to propose him for the Royal Society, as Michael Foster, now on the Council, is unable to do so.
Lists his chief publications and suggests names of biologists in the Royal Society whom CD might ask to sign his nomination certificate.
Michael Foster approves of names FMB suggested CD apply to [in proposing FMB to the Royal Society] and adds George Allman, Foster, W. H. Flower, and P. M. Duncan, the only biologists on the Council.
Complains at Albert Günther’s imputations against Charles Wyville Thomson [as a result of the dispute between Thomson and the British Museum, regarding the disposal of the specimens from the Challenger].
Responds to CD’s new work [Cross and self-fertilisation]. Suggests results might have been more convincing if CD had measured weights instead of heights. The fact that infertile hybrids have not been produced means that the "one great objection" has not been got rid of: the physiological characteristic of species. Suggests an experiment to produce "sterile mongrels" which would remove objection.
Believes Aegiphila to be exclusively American.
Contrasts fertilisation of Australian Acacia with Brazilian Mimosa.
Corrects Descent [1: 294] on inheritance of tortoise-shell colour in cats. It does not violate rule that characters appearing late in one sex are transmitted exclusively to the same sex.
Sends a passage relevant to Pangenesis [on regional accents distinguishable in the speech of those born deaf] from Life, letters, and journals of George Ticknor [ed. G. S. Hillard, vol. 1 (1876)], p. 196.
Tells of the controversy about evolution raging in Dunedin, with clergy playing a prominent part.
Discusses further his theory relating to the soaring capacity of birds.
Mentions hybrids produced by various crossings of game-birds.
Thanks for Cross and self-fertilisation.
Discusses geographical implications of inbreeding. Can the length of time an insular flora has been isolated be estimated by its weakness due to inbreeding?