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Glad CD approves of the orchids he sent.
Believes the pollinia of Mormodes are projected; thinks CD should look at the pollinia of Chysis and investigate the hybrid between Limatodes and Calanthe.
Agrees with CD’s estimate of the man [unidentified]. Hopes CD will use his influence with Lubbock to try to prevent the Council’s placing him at the head of the Zoological Society.
Suggests a change in the postscript [referred to in 3423].
Cites descriptions of melastomads in C. V. Naudin, Annales des Sciences Naturelles 3d ser., vols. 12–18.
Sir George Clerk to be new President of the Zoological Society.
Sends dried specimens of Melastomataceae.
Describes battles among bulls for leadership of the [Chillingham] herd.
Has received diploma from the University of Breslau [honorary doctorate in medicine and surgery]. Should he forward it or will CD pick it up in London? [See 3226a and 3446.]
Discusses his new microscope.
Has forwarded a diploma from the University of Breslau [Honorary Doctorate in Medicine and Surgery].
Hopes CD will come to lunch on Saturday. The Busks and J. D. Hooker are with JL.
Sends C. W. Crocker’s address.
Doubts CWC can help with Mormodes.
Will see CD at Lubbock’s.
Thanks for Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Separation of sexes in Billbergia.
Offers to experiment under CD’s direction, now that he has retired from Kew.
In his paper for Geological Society ["Glacial origin of certain lakes", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 185–204] he will prove that all the lake-basins of the Alps were scooped out by glaciers.
Discusses politics in the U. S. and relations between Britain and America.
Variation in Mollusca. The most abundant forms vary most.
Reports on a bird, offspring of a male mule between a canary and greenfinch, and a hen canary.
Family news.
Cites case of Owen’s getting compiler’s name removed from title of a British Museum catalogue.
Box of Melastomataceae has arrived.
Talked with [Duke of] Argyll about Origin. He is between stools: Owen and Lyell.
Pleased at CD’s opinion of his Arctic plants paper. CD has caught great blunder.
Lack of Arctic–Asiatic species in mountains of tropical Asia does not trouble him. Species seem to indicate some "current of migration" from Europe and W. Asia southeastward to Ceylon – an awful staggerer to bridge migrations.
