Accedes to her [unspecified] request.
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The Charles Darwin Collection
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Accedes to her [unspecified] request.
CD has harangued the Down Friendly Club. Does not think it will dissolve.
His specimen catalogue has not been returned from Cambridge museum. If not lost, will answer query.
Wants to know how to obtain The thoughts of Marcus Aurelius, mentioned in Descent [1: 106].
Comments on CD’s Cross and self-fertilisation: its usefulness to florists, and his solution of a long standing puzzle in showing the increase of monstrosities in self-fertilised plants.
Is unconvinced that correction in Cross and self-fertilisation requested by CD [see 10852] should be made. Asks CD to reconsider.
Encloses his translation of a draft letter from his friend Franz von Rekowsky [see 10855], who is German Consular Secretary at Messina.
Acknowledges receipt of a publication from a German author. Hopes that the German will not be too difficult to understand in an "important & abstruse" subject.
Reports a bluebell monster.
Response to Cross and self-fertilisation, reviewed in Spectator.
Thanks for work on Fossil arctic flora.
Darwin consents to his correspondence with Pieter Harting being published in Nature.
A letter from CD’s admirers in the Netherlands, sent with an album of their photographs, in celebration of his sixty-eighth birthday.
Presents an account of early efforts in the Netherlands in the direction of developmental theories, and evidence of the support and enthusiastic reception given CD’s theory.
Asks RK [Linnean Society Librarian] to send several journal volumes and articles.