From:
Henry Samuel King
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.40
Summary:
Sending a little volume of poetry written by his wife.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Sending a little volume of poetry written by his wife.
No summary available.
No summary available.
Sends Christmas greetings to family. Still has her intellect and is staying busy. Thanks Margaret Brodie Herschel for visiting Agnes [Greig].
Discusses dimorphic and trimorphic plants; mentions especially Rubiaceae and a dimorphic monocotyledon.
Notes observations on the monstrous male flowers of Begonia,
and on self-sterile plants.
Asks JH to sign a certificate for Fellowship of the R.S.L. of [William Stanley] Jevons.