Invites CD to dine and meet Alphonse de Candolle.
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Invites CD to dine and meet Alphonse de Candolle.
Has been offered proof impressions of Maguire’s portrait of CD.
Sorry to hear of CD’s "heap of maladies".
Georgina [Tollet?] wants to see the review in the Quarterly Journal of Science [3 (1866): 151–76].
CD elected honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy.
Gustav von Leonhard and Hans Bruno Geinitz’s Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie [1862–79] unfriendly to CD’s theory.
Lists various German publications dealing with CD’s theory.
Tameness of whales and porpoises.
Reports that his father has given up the idea of publishing a new edition of the Origin but points out that H. B. Geinitz of Dresden has, to date, only written against CD’s theory.
Anecdotes about appreciation of beauty by animals.
Thanks for explanation on relative fertility of homostyled and heterostyled crosses in Primula. Sends an intermediate form with small stamens, but stigma only slightly above stamens.
Election as Botanical Lecturer at St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
Expects R. Caspary’s paper to be published soon.
Reports the conclusions of another of RC’s papers on the movement of tree branches due to cold [Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. & Hortic. Lond. (1866): 98–117]
and discusses a paper by H. Lecoq on the mountain flora of the Auvergne [Proc. Bot. Congr. (1866): 158–65]. He disagrees with CD on glaciation and its effect on geographical distribution.
Invites CD and wife to dine with Alphonse and Mme de Candolle.
Coming to London for Botanical Congress. Requests interview.
Thanks for photograph.
Sorry he missed CD when he called. Suggests a time he can call.
Orchids.
Lyell has written to JDH about coal-plants of Melville Island.
Has glanced at first edition of Principles and has no doubt that Lyell meant the whole globe was cooler when land was massed at poles. JDH doubts this.
Observations on a bird that used a stone to break open a snail.
Thanks CD for invitation. Solicitous of CD’s health. Will let Hooker decide whether CD’s health will allow his visit.
[Alexander] Braun in poor health.
Thinks a new U. S. edition of Origin is needed.
Gives observations on the climbing habits of Bignonia capreolata.
Describes the floral structure of broom, particularly the form of the varying anthers. Encloses drawings of anthers and pollen.
Mogg [John Traherne Moggridge] wants to visit CD.
Self-fertilising orchids.
Encloses letter from H. B. Geinitz, who declines to handle translation of new edition of Origin. Recommends Julius Victor Carus. Also suggests Gustav von Leonhard as translator for Origin.
Discusses translation of Variation.
Gives CD genus and species names of the singular humming-bird; distressed by specific name made necessary by revised laws of nomenclature.