CD sends schedule for VOK’s visit to Down.
CD sends schedule for VOK’s visit to Down.
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Disputes Thomas Meehan’s observations on the hardiness of exposed buds, and believes bud-scales are for the protection of the bud-leaves. Reiterates his opinion that the phyllotaxy of a plant is determined by causes acting when the leaves are crowded into close contact. Attempts to explain how a different phyllotaxy on the upper and lower parts of the same shoot could have arisen.
His visit to Down.
Requests financial support for horticultural researches, which, he promises, will enormously increase yields.
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Thanks JVC for his History of zoology [Geschichte der Zoologie bis auf Joh. Müller und Charl. Darwin (1872)]. Considers the title one of the greatest honours ever paid him.
Reports on foreign orders for the heliotype plates of Expression.
States his reasons for authorising JJM to translate the Origin.
Thanks for letter, in which CD cited [Anton] Kerner’s alpine observations.
Describes with diagrams the curious disposition of leaves on some Acacia twigs, and points out that his theory should account for these anomalies as well as normal cases.
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Sends proof-sheets [of Expression].
Is unwell and must stop work and leave home for a time.
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Acting as Superintendent of Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta.
Observations on worm-castings in India.
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Printing and translation of Expression.
Thanks HdeL-D for two papers on Ascidians [by A. Giard in Arch. Zool. 1 (1872): 233–88; 397–428].
Some of the expressions in HdeL-D’s paper ["Direction des études zoologiques", Arch. Zool. 1 (1872): 1–64] made CD think he accepted the principle of evolution.
Requesting two books by Lionel Smith Beale.