List of references on orchid structure and fertilisation.
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List of references on orchid structure and fertilisation.
Orchid anatomy.
Orchid homologies.
Sensitive responses in Catasetum.
Acropera becoming clear.
T. F. Jamieson impressed by JDH’s work on Himalayan glaciers.
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.
Refers CD to a paper which he ought to know: Ch. Fermond, "Faits pour servir à l’histoire générale de la fécondation chez les végétaux", Recueil des travaux de la Société d’émulation pour les sciences pharmaceutiques 3 (1859).
Discusses observations of his own and of John Torrey on dimorphism, especially in Amsinckia.
Is trying to find specimens of Houstonia for CD.
CD fears he has misinterpreted vascularisation of butterfly orchid flowers.
Homologies of orchid flower vascularisation.
Discusses stock-brokers; hopes to be able to see WED at Christmas.
Describes in detail his day at home and at the bank in Southampton.
JDH’s letter on grounds of generalisation in plant morphology.
Faunal distribution and the glacial period.
Orchid homologies.
JDH asked to check Lindley on Acropera.
Transport of an orchid to Down.
Sends notes on fertilisation of Victoria regia tending to show that impregnation with foreign pollen increases productivity of seeds.
Acropera species may be males of other orchids.
Homologies of ducts in orchids.
Went to British Museum to see Bates’s mimetic butterflies.
Remarks about Labiatae, Linum, Oxalis and Viola occasioned by hearing CD’s paper ["Two forms of Primula", read 21 Nov 1861, Collected papers 2: 45–63].