Certain there are three forms of Primula sinensis.
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Certain there are three forms of Primula sinensis.
Distinguishes two kinds of floral dimorphism: that affecting sexual organs and that affecting outer envelopes.
Thanks for Oxalis. Only experimentation will show whether disproportion of long- to short-styled flowers is a functional dimorphism.
Case of aestival flowers is very curious.
Sends letter via his brother visiting England. Awaits continuation of CD’s "wonderful book", which excites much interest.
Comments on Civil War which he expects will end slavery.
Thanks WED for eyeglass.
Reports on health of Horace and family matters.
Has finished Orchids.
The Director-General of the Army Medical Department [J. B. Gibson] agrees to have CD’s circular distributed to Army surgeons in India and the West Indies, with reply being voluntary. [See Descent 1: 244–5 n.]
Discusses primrose ovules,
Atlantis paper [Nat. Hist. Rev. (1862): 149–70],
plant migrations;
Corydalis.
Asks for an order to buy a CD photograph for Mr Tait.
Encourages DO to publish his paper and put his name to it. [Paper apparently not published.] Concurs with his views on primordial nature of hermaphroditism.
Thanks correspondent for his excellent review [of French edition of Origin (1862)], which he feels will help the spread of his views in France.