Wonderful how every flower one looks at is explained by, and throws light on, the fertilising process.
Wonderful how every flower one looks at is explained by, and throws light on, the fertilising process.
Thanks CWN for specimen. CD has sent it to Hooker for examination.
Sends an ear of wheat with two florets of oats growing out of it. Expects it will all turn out a humbug.
Berkeley’s address in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1868): 920, also Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): 83–7] praises CD tremendously.
Asks him to thank E. L. Layard for trouble taken.
Says Zoological Society "very foolishly" wants no specimens of domestic varieties [from Ceylon].
The wheat and oat specimen has been examined "in congress" by Oliver, Bentham, Asa Gray, and JDH. No organic connection of any kind.
The election of 1868.
Remarkable deflection of the plummet observed east of Forres.
Sends some answers to CD’s queries on expression, based on his observations of Abyssinians.
Informs CD of K. G. Semper’s desire to meet him and to discuss new information on volcanic phenomena, geographical distribution, etc.
CD’s doctrines apply to man’s mental organisation, but the soul is a different matter. Cites Dean Henry Alford, M. J. Berkeley, and Prof. [J. F.?] Ferrier.
Asks CD to sign enclosed certificate first, as he does not know T. H. Farrer personally. [On top part of first two pages of a letter to Hooker from H. C. Rothery about Farrer’s nomination for Linnean Society]
Thinks J. D. Hooker and Asa Gray will not be able to visit Down until after the 12th.
Sends a bill he thinks is Caroline’s.
Tells CD of officers’ praise of Leonard.
No summary available.
No summary available.
Is very grateful for his comments on her translation of Dante's Inferno. Will obtain Mr. Ford's version. Intends to continue with her translation though she sees no prospect of it being printed.
Comments on double star observations and some papers on the subject.
About the location of several different sets of double star observations.
While in Switzerland requested his wife to send to JH a little tract on Count de S. Robert's hypsometrical investigations. Found that Robert's formulae worked correctly for ordinary European heights. Realizes that JH demolished Robert's theories, but Robert also showed observations on P. S. Laplace's theories.
Thanks RM for the double star observations he has sent.
Sends RM a copy of Angelo Secchi's double star observations pointing to a very large number of calculation errors.