Would much like to see Dr Birchfield appointed superintendent of the new asylum at Woking.
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Would much like to see Dr Birchfield appointed superintendent of the new asylum at Woking.
As Honorary Secretary of the Botanical Congress he asks that CD’s name be listed as a member of its committee.
Discusses the stinging habits of wasps and bees and whether or not they leave their sting in the wound.
Feels sure that at times the globe must have been superficially cooler. Believes CD will turn out right with regard to migration across the equator via mountain chains, while the tropical heat of certain lowlands was retained.
Thanks RC for photograph and for papers, which are of highest interest to CD. He is not fully convinced about the rose by RC’s graft-hybrid paper [Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. & Hortic. Amsterdam (1865): 65–80]. Still retains faith in his own view that no plant is perpetually self-fertilised.
Reviewing C. V. Naudin’s article ["Nouvelles recherches sur l’hybridité dans les végétaux", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 19 (1863): 180–203] for Popular Science Review [5 (1866): 304–13]. Requests references.
Proposes to visit Down on Easter weekend.
Thanks for references for his Naudin–hybridism paper [see 5029].
Asks, on behalf of his father, whether he might publish a new German translation of the Origin, believing Bronn’s to be inadequate.
Forgot to thank CD for his praise of tendril paper [see 4944].
Cannot come to Down on weekend because of teaching duties.
Describes plans for new German edition of Origin [1867].
Oswald Heer [in Die Urwelt der Schweiz (1866)] agrees with CD that Swiss ants (Formica sanguinea) capture more slaves than do British ants. Does this contradict selection, since the British ants are exposed to harder conditions and a poorer fauna?
Sends CD comb of the Chinese honey-bee, as requested.
Calls for more study of behaviour and less of classification to determine whether descent theory can bear the weight not [only] of reasoning but of fact. Hopes CD’s intended book [Variation] will help.
Asks to visit Down on Saturday.
Mrs Hooker will not come with him to Down on Saturday.