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JDH hopes Thiselton-Dyer does not discourage Frank’s investigation of insectivorous plants.
Preparing new editions of botany text-books.
His marriage is set for August.
Richard Gordon’s French translation of Climbing plants [1877] is half printed.
In Martins’ Introduction to [Éd. Barbier’s translation of] Insectivorous plants [1877] he wants to include a complete bibliography of CD’s works: their extent is not generally known in France.
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All rejoice that J. C. Adams thinks well of GHD’s work and will present his paper to the Royal Society.
Gives news of his other sons.
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Asks FD to write on his behalf and say that he is unwilling to join a deputation [on vivisection] and that he believes in the need to protect physiology as well as lower animals.
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Would like to cite WO’s case of bees perforating white but not blue monkshood (Aconitum napellus) in his next book [Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 427–8]. Believes it is probably sterile if insects are excluded.
Recounts his observations on the different ways bees perforate flowers of white and blue varieties of monkshood. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p 428.]
Responds to CD’s comments and criticism of Geographical distribution.
Observations on pollinia of Orchis maculata
and on Primula elatior. [On latter, see Forms of flowers, p. 34.]
Experimenting on climbing plants.
Has no further information on Dionaea.