Lyell thinks an expedition should be sent to the caves in Borneo, supported by the sale of surplus specimens; thinks "our progenitors" may well be there.
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Lyell thinks an expedition should be sent to the caves in Borneo, supported by the sale of surplus specimens; thinks "our progenitors" may well be there.
CD has told Scott not to hope for help from JDH.
Health improving.
Hopes to write Lythrum paper soon.
Observations on [length of style and length of filament and stigmas of] Pulmonaria.
Thanks for CD’s consoling letter. His mind cannot concentrate after losing his position, and he feels "an inward dread of life’s future". Would have been glad to work for CD. Understands why Hooker cannot recommend him.
No doubt that Owen wrote "Oken" and the archetype book, which appeared in its second edition in French.
Pressures of work and family.
CD is right about variability [of Pulmonaria]. Encloses observations and diagrams of additional plants.
Another plea to take Scott on at Kew. Emma begs CD not to employ him at Down.
Has just received a long article on the Origin from D. J. Brown, an Edinburgh baker [see 4464].
Again refuses to help Scott as "unfitted" to make his way in the world. Scott is unwilling to take his part in the "struggle for life", unlike Tyndall, Faraday, Huxley, and Lindley, who established themselves. Scott’s work is not science, but "scientific horticulture".
Writes about a land transaction.
CD thinks JDH takes a hard view of Scott’s character, but will not argue further.
Leersia.
Working on homomorphic and heteromorphic crosses in Primula.
JDH on John Scott.
Curious about the rationale of pollen prepotence.
Working on variation in New Zealand flora.
Forwards a letter from H. W. Bates to JDH announcing HWB’s appointment as Assistant Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society.
Will send grasses CD asked about.
Reports observations on brood of Australian chicks he is hatching.
On rereading the Origin, offers a criticism on two grounds: 1. Blending inheritance; 2. The tendency of species to elude competing species. Also competition within species eliminates the weak and thus preserves the species.
Recalls being introduced to CD when [undergraduate] at Cambridge.
Sends CD some of his pamphlets
and expresses support of Origin.
Has discovered there are "3 sexes" in the solitary Cynips as well as social insects.
[Outline sketches of pollen from long- and short-styled yellow cowslips and from red cowslip, magnified 350x.]
Instructions on measuring pollen of dimorphic plants.
Thanks WED for measuring cowslip pollen. Sends dimorphic flowers.
Thanks for DO’s Lessons in elementary botany [1864].
Asks him to inquire whether there are any twining species of Passiflora.
Sir Henry Holland wants to see [Erasmus Darwin] Zoonomia.
Snow [F. J. Wedgwood] has gone, hoping to meet Fanny who is in a state of anxiety.