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Ernst Haeckel writes that young German scientists are enthusiastic for natural selection.
Did JDH write the article in Natural History Review on trees not producing flowers ["Botanical lesson books", (1864): 355–69]?
Encourages Harvey to publish on his "disagreeable" monster plants.
Returned from Ireland, JDH wishes to visit Down.
Notes and queries on climbing plants for JDH [? given to him by CD at their meeting of 24 July 1864].
No summary available.
The Kew agent has looked into ships to Calcutta for Scott, who should come to Kew.
Gives an extract from his notes on Marcgravia umbellata, an epiphyte that might be the plant that Bates refers to as matador.
Replies to CD’s queries on climbing plants.
JDH’s visit stimulates CD’s interest in his own work. Encloses list of queries on climbing plants. [Missing]
Clarifies queries on climbing plants.
Replies to queries on climbing plants.
JDH meets Scott and finds him an intelligent and superior-looking man. Scott wishes to come to Down before leaving England.
Scott would be very welcome at Down for a short visit.
Asks JDH to name a Bignonia.
Coming to end of climbing plants paper.
First draft of climbing plants paper is completed.
Nepenthes is a true climber.
Scott has visited Down.
Believes he gave JDH wrong address.
Hookers and Lyells will visit Lubbocks so he cannot see CD in London.
Will CD sit for Woolner?
CD is not well enough to sit for Woolner.
Two Bignonia plants, which JDH does not distinguish as species, can be separated by differences in climbing and sensitivity behaviour.
Wants to write a non-quarrelsome reply to R. A. Kölliker ["Darwin’sche Schöpfungstheorie", Z. Wiss. Zool. 14 (1864): 174–86] in the Reader. Lyell opposes, but E. A. Darwin and Hensleigh Wedgwood support the idea.
John Scott has sailed.
Concurs with Lyell that CD need not reply to Kölliker.
CD’s Bignonia plants cannot be told apart without flowers.
CD continues to have trouble reconciling the Veitch’s names for Bignonia plants and Kew names.
Lyell and Falconer called on CD in London.
R. I. Murchison’s address [see 4595] smashes Ramsay’s glacial theory.
JDH defends his view that CD should not answer Kölliker.
Pleased that Bentham is cautious about Naudin’s view of reversion. CD can show experimentally that crossing of races and species tends to bring back ancient characters.
Suggests Gärtner’s Bastarderzeugung [1849] be translated
and that Oliver review Scott’s Primula paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 78–126] for a future issue of Natural History Review.
Is working on Variation.
