Henslow’s long suffering.
Donald Beaton’s articles in Cottage Gardener clever but not to be trusted.
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Henslow’s long suffering.
Donald Beaton’s articles in Cottage Gardener clever but not to be trusted.
Joseph Hooker writes to inform Miles Berkeley that John Steven Henslow had died the previous day at 4am.
Henslow’s death.
What a contrast C. C. Babington will be as Professor of Botany at Cambridge.
Beaton not to be trusted.
CD may switch from Athenæum to London Review & Wkly J. Polit.
No summary available.
CD’s doubts on biography of Henslow. Writing recollections of Cambridge days at JDH’s request.
Has written recollections of Henslow [Collected papers 2: 72–4].
No summary available.
CD’s changing taste in periodical literature.
William Darwin’s partnership in bank.
Work: variation and orchids.
Many mutual acquaintances are ill.
Father is unable to write so he has to thank him for his letter and the offer of Leucadendron seeds. Will try some experiments with them. Comments on some of C. R. Darwin's theories. Has he tried the Peruvian potato experiment? Does not remember a Camellia fruiting.
Trip to Torquay.
Superiority of Journal of Horticulture to Gardeners’ Chronicle for CD’s purposes.
No summary available.
Has worked out homologies of orchids’ pollinia and rostellum.
On W. H. Harvey’s review ["The natural evolution of organic species considered", Dublin Hosp. Gaz. 8 (1861): 146–52].
Orchids from Kew.
JDH’s income problems.
On orchids supplied by Kew; homologies of pollen and rostellum.
Puzzled by function of orchids’ rostellum.
Orchids’ pollen concentrated in two pollinia; hence one flower can fertilise only two others. This may explain precision of orchid pollination mechanisms.
Has found function of rostellum: modified stigma guarantees attachment of pollinia.
Personal regards.
William Darwin will make a botanist.
No summary available.
Orchid anatomy. Requests Lindley’s work on orchids [The genera and species of orchidaceous plants (1830–40)].