Will be proud to publish CD’s new work on domestic animals [Variation]. Will announce it as the complement of the Origin. Advises on woodcuts; does not wish to limit number; agrees to CD’s suggestions for artists.
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Will be proud to publish CD’s new work on domestic animals [Variation]. Will announce it as the complement of the Origin. Advises on woodcuts; does not wish to limit number; agrees to CD’s suggestions for artists.
Discusses proposed publication of Variation.
Congratulates AG on the "grand news of Richmond".
Still interested in dimorphism and would welcome new cases.
Working on Variation
and correcting proofs of Climbing plants.
Would like seed of AG’s dimorphic Plantago.
Cannot understand how the wind could fertilise reciprocally dimorphic flowers.
Sends camera outlines of pollen. Thinks the red longstyled ones are more sterile than the yellow.
Did not know that the Arnee had been called a Bubalus.
Thanks for information about shrimps.
Instructions for Luke Wells about woodcuts for Variation.
Asks to borrow Botanische Zeitung (1860) with Friedrich Alefeld on Pisum [pp. 204–5].
JDH should ask George Busk whether he knows a better doctor than William Jenner "for giving life to a worn out poor devil".
Fowl MS has arrived safely.
Sends pigeon MS for WBT’s perusal.
Further instructions for Luke Wells.
Reforms at Kew.
X Club Dinner. H. B. Wilson and J. W. Colenso as guests.
Troubled by Lubbock’s going into Parliament – loss to science.
Has written to Busk.
Sending Botanische Zeitung.
MS [of CD’s pigeon chapter] arrived safely.
Pigeon and poultry engravings [for Variation].
Roguery at Kew.
Who wrote reviews of Linnean Society’s Transactions, of Planchon, and of subspecies in Natural History Review [Apr 1865]?
Is rereading Origin for second French edition.
Comments on CD’s Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31]
and on H. Crüger’s orchid paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35].
May take position at Calcutta Botanic Garden.
Regrets he cannot be elected to Linnean Society.
Pleased Asa Gray has commented on JS’s paper.
Supports Atlantis hypothesis.
W. J. Hooker is unwell.
Bentham wrote on Planchon ["The ancient and modern floras of Montpellier", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1865): 202–25],
T. Thomson on subspecies ["Species and subspecies", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1865): 226–42]
and Greene of York on ["The Linnean Society’s transactions", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1865): 189–202].
JDH did the leader in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1865): 267–8, 291–2].
Delighted with CD’s calm opinion of Origin. Has same view of some of his own papers.
Strelitzia has arrived
but no books or bottles from G. H. K. Thwaites.
Hopes his own judgment about Origin is as good as Hooker’s about his own papers.
Strelitzia’s neat mechanism for exposing pollen.
Thanks for advertisement, and pleased Murray likes title (of Variation).
On Lubbock’s plans.
Visited by Antoine Auguste Laugel.
Guessed right on Bentham’s "Planchon".
Much struck by Thomson’s article on nomenclature [see 4812]; importance of this subject.
Sorry best scientists read so little; few read any long papers.
Pleased at CD’s opinion of Thomson’s article.
Non-reading is great fault of the best school of English scientific men.
Opposed to Lubbock’s going into Parliament.
W. J. Burchell’s collections are coming to Kew.
Wonders whether CD might contribute, if possible, an occasional letter to the Reader to help in their effort to establish the journal.
Sends CD the first volume of her Life of Josiah Wedgwood [2 vols. (1865–6)].