CD thanks JDH for assistance with "bloom" study.
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CD thanks JDH for assistance with "bloom" study.
JDH has to entertain the Emperor of Brazil [Pedro II], who wants to meet CD.
CD cannot see the Emperor of Brazil because he is in Southampton, but he sends sincere respects for the Emperor’s role in assisting science.
JDH finds the Emperor, once an energetic man, all used up.
JDH recounts circumstances of his receiving Star of India (K.C.S.I.).
Emperor of Brazil continues to press JDH for a meeting with CD.
JDH’s daughter, Harriet, marries W. T. Thiselton-Dyer.
JDH has just returned from U. S., where he worked on N. American geographical distribution with Asa Gray.
Welcomes JDH home from American expedition.
Requests seeds for experiments he and Frank are doing on automatic movements of cotyledons.
Discusses the structure of grass embryos; states differing theories regarding which part of the seed corresponds to the cotyledon.
Requests seeds for study of movement in cotyledons. Would love to study Welwitschia cotyledons.
Son William is to be married 28 November.
Sent rare cycad seeds for CD’s cotyledon study.
Welwitschia seed germinated at Kew had ordinary cotyledons. JDH thinks mature Welwitschia leaves are original cotyledons.
CD and Frank working hard on cotyledonary movement.
CD suggests technique for growing Welwitschia.
Approves of J. D. Dana and of O. Heer.
JDH cannot attend at the bestowal of CD’s honorary doctorate at Cambridge.
O. C. Marsh is rash to suggest all vertebrate types originated in America.
Neptunia seeds germinated by applying great heat. CD wants advice of Kew gardener, R. I. Lynch, on how to proceed.
Printed public oration for CD’s Cambridge doctorate enclosed.
Suggests revisions in JDH’s 1877 Presidential Address to the Royal Society [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1877): 427–46].
In London and wishes to meet JDH.
Invites CD to Kew.
Asks opinion of his proposal to Bartholomew Price to translate and publish C. K. Sprengel [Das entdeckte Geheimniss (1793)] and Hermann Müller [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)] in one volume.
Supports idea to translate C. K. Sprengel, but opposes publishing it together with H. Müller because this would raise price of Müller’s useful book.
Confirms JDH’s observation that only tip of cabbage radicle shows geotropism.