Evidence of glacial action in Australia. [See Origin, 4th ed., p. 443.]
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Evidence of glacial action in Australia. [See Origin, 4th ed., p. 443.]
Has visited T. V. Wollaston, who is working hard but lives too solitary a life.
There are further legal complications with William Darwin’s partnership and CD’s solicitor wants to call on JL.
Mentions Dutch translation [of Origin].
Discusses evolutionary origin of sexuality.
Asa Gray’s suggestion that variation was directed by a higher power and Herschel’s view of providential arrangement in nature.
Compares variation in domestic and wild species.
Asks CL for introductions for his son William in Southampton, where he has joined a bank.
No summary available.
Asks JL’s advice about details of William’s proposed banking partnership. CD’s solicitor is suspicious of Atherley’s long-term intentions.
Asks R.S.L. Council to request Colonial Office to provide official recommendation to authorities in Malta for William Lassell, going there to observe.
CD awarded honorary doctorate of medicine and surgery by the University of Breslau. [See 3194a.]
Responds to a letter from JH, which GS has forwarded to Edward Sabine.
Bentham has sent a damaged spurless Orchis pyramidalis; asks CL to send another. Fears they are irregular monsters. [See Orchids, pp. 47–8.]
Certain the Colonial Secretary [Duke of Newcastle] would write to governor of Malta on behalf of [William] Lassell.
JL’s kindness has laid William and himself "under an enduring obligation". One clause in the partnership agreement seems harsh but will probably never signify.
With some hesitation CD’s solicitor advises acceptance of partnership offered to William.
Has found function of rostellum: modified stigma guarantees attachment of pollinia.
Personal regards.
William Darwin will make a botanist.
Thanks for his note on the performance of the telescope. Gives suggested reasons for faults. Sends a print of a photograph of a map recently taken by one of his achromatic lenses.
Thanks CL for orchids acquired from a collector.
Discusses role of Providence in variation. Does CL honestly think it applies to variations in domestication? If not ordained there, sees no reason for it in nature either.
Has found hundreds of Spiranthes.
JL is thinking of moving to Brighton.
Has had no reply from H. P. F. P. Clinton (5th Duke of Newcastle); will write to H. J. Temple (3rd Viscount Palmerston) later if no answer is received.
Explains JH's objections to JL's shadow-extinction hypothesis of meteors. Believes that several sorts of meteors—magnetoelectric, stony, vaporous, etc.—exist.