Has read correspondent’s notice on bent cleavage. Refers him to observations on the same fact in South America, p. 160. CD has also suggested a conjectural explanation.
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Has read correspondent’s notice on bent cleavage. Refers him to observations on the same fact in South America, p. 160. CD has also suggested a conjectural explanation.
Orchid anatomy.
Orchid homologies.
Sensitive responses in Catasetum.
Acropera becoming clear.
T. F. Jamieson impressed by JDH’s work on Himalayan glaciers.
CD is sending an orchid flower; asks JL to identify it.
Also asks if JL can spare a dried flower of another orchid (name forgotten) [which CD describes] so that he can try to trace its ducts or spiral vessels.
Reports events at Down;
has been doing good work on the homologies of orchids.
Asks JDH to look at movement of labellum in an orchid.
Rostellum of Masdevallia.
JDH’s Fernando Po case.
Madeiran fauna pre-glacial according to Oswald Heer.
Orchid anatomy: homologies of column vascularisation.
Primula paper sent to Linnean Society.
Thanks GB for arranging for his paper ["Two forms of Primula", Collected papers 2: 45–63] and for his photograph.
CD fears he has misinterpreted vascularisation of butterfly orchid flowers.
Writes at Lindley’s suggestion to ask whether DN can send several orchid specimens. Describes his work in preparation for Orchids.
Returns a letter from a Mr Walsh – "a clear-headed man on my side". What he says about sea trout in lochs would make a good case for CD if borne out by professional ichthyologists.
Homologies of orchid flower vascularisation.
Has read about JPG’s article on the fertilisation of orchids in Annales de la Societé Linnéenne d’Angers [1853], but has been unable to secure a copy. Seeks information about the role of bees in distributing pollen masses and about the varieties of orchids in Angers.
Discusses stock-brokers; hopes to be able to see WED at Christmas.
CD sends thanks for many valuable dried specimens [of orchids]. Has been promised Catasetum and some Dendrobium by Mr Rucker; has written also to Lady Dorothy [Nevill].
JDH’s letter on grounds of generalisation in plant morphology.
Faunal distribution and the glacial period.
Orchid homologies.
Lady Dorothy [Nevill] has written very obligingly and sent a lot of orchids.
Declines invitation to visit DN’s orchid collection. Thanks for orchids and list [of available plants]. Requests a few more spikes of Bolbophyllum, particularly of species with irritable labellum.