Feels a little better, but sickness continues.
Wants to borrow Robert Caspary’s paper on the union of buds in Cytisus [see 5012].
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Feels a little better, but sickness continues.
Wants to borrow Robert Caspary’s paper on the union of buds in Cytisus [see 5012].
On FitzRoy’s life and character.
Carl von Siebold’s cases of males and females of gall insects [True parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1857)]. Each sex produced on different plants.
Haeckel’s astonishing case of propagation in a Medusa.
Sends advice on naturalist matters.
W. H. Harvey’s work [with Wilhelm Sonder, Flora capensis (1859–65)],
and Robert Brown’s publication ["On the organs and mode of fecundation in Orchideae and Asclepiadeae", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 16 (1833): 685–745].
Writes of having seen in S. America a Hymenopteran with tarsi covered with pollen-masses of Asclepias.
Interested in JPMW’s researches in South American caverns.
Mentions poor health.
Thanks for tracings.
Thanks FR for copy [of first number] of Der Mensch [1866].
Would rejoice to see BJS at Down, but explains that he can only spend short spells of time in his company if he comes.
Asks JC to pay him a professional visit at Down to consider whether the ice treatment would apply to his case. Describes his sickness.
Thanks for Catalogue.
Has had a bad month. Somewhat improved as a result of John Chapman’s ice-bag cures.
Asks THH to read MS on his hypothesis Pangenesis. THH only man whose judgment on it would be final with him.
Thanks for THH’s willingness to read Pangenesis MS. Thinks some such view will have to be adopted but it overthrows, in an uncomfortable manner, ordinary development.
Acknowledges receipt of £255 2s. 10d.
CD and ED bequeath an annuity of £50 to J. Parslow [the Darwins’ butler].