Comments on Forms of flowers.
Describes his work on fossil plants collected in the Arctic.
Notes work on Ginkgo.
Comments on Forms of flowers.
Describes his work on fossil plants collected in the Arctic.
Notes work on Ginkgo.
Writes as a trustee of Down Friendly Society about withdrawing some funds.
Sends a specimen of Schrankia.
No summary available.
Sees abortion as a refinement of infanticide; all such practices originate in female infanticide. Herbert Spencer’s over-speculation.
Thanks CD for statement about children’s speech. Asks permission to quote him in his forthcoming book.
Makes suggestions regarding statement on potato experiments to be published in Daily News.
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
In his Monographiae phanerogamarum [vol. 1 (1878)] he discusses transitional forms of dioecism in three genera of Smilax.
Criticises CD’s use of the words "purpose" and "end", but acknowledges that in English they can mean both cause and effect.
THF is seeking advice regarding the selection of an entomologist to carry out some duties [apparently pest destruction].