Suggests CD try to get Lythrum hyssopifolia from France.
Dimorphic flowers.
Differences between newly opened and older orchids.
Flowers of Spiranthes and Goodyera.
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Suggests CD try to get Lythrum hyssopifolia from France.
Dimorphic flowers.
Differences between newly opened and older orchids.
Flowers of Spiranthes and Goodyera.
Asks WED to send some specimens [of Lythrum?].
[Letter from Emma Darwin to WED on verso.]
Asks for advice on where a local chemist can send his brother’s meteorological observations from Missouri.
Gives advice as to whether certain meteorological observations would be worth making.
CD was in error about bees’ behaviour at clover.
Exciting work on trimorphism in Lythrum salicaria. Requests Lythraceae from Kew.
Wants to know of plants other than Melastoma and Lythrum with coloured pollen.
Can CCB get Lythrum hyssopifolium seeds?
Hottonia splendidly dimorphic.
Hive-bees and clover.
Performed a large number of Lythrum crosses before leaving home.
Working on Drosera for amusement. Has tried effect on plants of vegetable substances active on animal nervous systems, e.g., opium; makes Drosera inactive for hours.
Sends flowers with anthers of two colours.
Finds JL’s facts on the diving insect that remains four hours under water new and interesting [see "On two aquatic Hymenoptera", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1864): 135–42].
On ACR’s paper on glacial origin of lakes. CD thinks it is correct. Suggests further investigation to corroborate it. His only doubt has to do with areas of great activity.
On ACR’s view of cause of glacial period: CD did battle with Hooker on same point.
T. F. Jamieson has smashed CD’s Glen Roy marine theory in splendid style.
Acknowledges CD’s approval of his review of Origin in Revue Germanique [16 (1861): 523–59; 17 (1861): 232–63]. Praises natural selection;
criticises C.-A. Royer’s [French] translation.
He collected Splachnum luteum north of Spitzbergen 40 years ago. Now an acquaintance has brought the plant back from the identical spot.
Has given directions to save seeds of Lythrum hyssopifolium.
CD’s diagram of Lythrum salicaria is very remarkable. [See Collected papers 2: 107.]
Walter White [Asst.-Sec. and Librarian, Royal Society] has introduced EC to Richard Kippist of the Linnean Society, who has made little progress toward accepting Origin.
Asks DO to name enclosed Lythrum received from CD’s sister-in-law [Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood]
Has passed the time by dissecting flowers of Cruciferae. Sends results, with diagrams, to JDH.
Son [Leonard] ill with scarlet fever. Also Mrs Darwin.
Intends to give up work on Drosera until Variation is done.
Wife’s health better.
Visited Duke of Argyll.
Thanks CD for Cruciferae diagram; will ponder it.
Staggered by complexity of Welwitschia.