CD’s poor health.
Agassiz’s attempt to do away with Darwinism.
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CD’s poor health.
Agassiz’s attempt to do away with Darwinism.
CD’s doctor [J. M. Gully] has ordered him to do nothing for six months.
Thanks RT for orchid specimen.
Dares not look at Oxalis flowers.
Regrets RT cannot get seed, especially from his trimorphic flowers.
Asks for bulbs of two or three forms.
On Wedgwood vases for JDH.
Willy Hooker’s scarlet fever.
Discusses the contraction of hygroscopic bundles in seed-pods,
and a paper by Hugo von Mohl ["Über dimorphe Blüthen", Bot. Ztg. (1863): 309–15, 321–8] in which he discusses Oxalis and determines that Fumaria is a necessarily self-fertilising plant.
Fertile flowers of violets, except Viola tricolor, require insect visits.
CD’s Copley Medal. The numbers were ten to eight in CD’s favour but the Cambridge men mustered strongly for Sedgwick.
Offers letters to Eliza Meteyard for her book [The life of Josiah Wedgwood (1865–6)].