Is going to Norwich again on account of his mother’s health.
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Is going to Norwich again on account of his mother’s health.
Would be delighted to see CD at Kew.
Must cut short visit to Down because of domestic problems.
Will not be inclined to challenge Pangenesis.
Admits CD’s victory over JDH’s continental hypothesis (but will not give up Greenland).
Relation of variation to circumstances is shown by discovery of endemic St Helena umbellifer having same palm-like habit as an endemic Madeiran species.
Has completed Boott’s Carices [Illustrations of the genus Carex, pt 4 (1867)],
is printing W. H. Harvey’s work [Genera of South African plants, 2d ed. (1868)],
and is revising English edition of Alphonse de Candolle’s Laws of botanical nomenclature [trans. H. A. Weddell (1868)].
Arrangements at Kew. Gardener [John Smith] is very ill; Oliver reigns supreme in the Herbarium.
Would like to come to Down on 20th or 21st.
Woolner is unwell.
Hopes to get afternoon train from Victoria.
Woolner comes on Sunday morning.
Left his box of plants in dog-cart [on his visit to Down].