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Hopes CD will come to lunch on Saturday. The Busks and J. D. Hooker are with JL.
Acknowledges receipt of a diploma for Doctor’s degree from the University of Breslau and expresses his thanks.
Discusses WED’s growing interest in botany; would be grateful for certain observations.
Is much concerned about Horace’s illness.
Has sent Orchids MS to printers
and will work a little at dimorphism.
Asks for the address of C. W. Crocker.
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.
Would like to hear ACR’s new views on origin of mountain lakes, but cannot stand the hot, late meetings [at Geological Society].
Variation in Mollusca. The most abundant forms vary most.
No summary available.
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.
No summary available.
No summary available.
Admires JDH’s paper on Arctic plants ["Distribution of Arctic plants", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 251–348]. Such papers compel people to reflect on modification of species;
JDH will be driven to a cooled globe.
Serious erratum in paper.
New and original evidence in case of Greenland. Its flora requires accidental means of transport by ice and currents.
Box of Melastomataceae has arrived.
Talked with [Duke of] Argyll about Origin. He is between stools: Owen and Lyell.
Obliged for MTM’s ["Vegetable morphology", Br. & Foreign Med.-Chir. Rev. 29 (1862): 202–18].
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.
[List of plants in CD’s hand, with notes by JDH identifying them.]
