His orchid paper limited because he does not give illustrations from distinct genera.
Discusses the self- and cross-fertility of coloured primrose varieties. Thanks CD for tables of unpublished Primula work.
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His orchid paper limited because he does not give illustrations from distinct genera.
Discusses the self- and cross-fertility of coloured primrose varieties. Thanks CD for tables of unpublished Primula work.
Thanks JS for orchid paper [Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 7 (1863): 543–50]. JS presents excellent new facts on sterility of orchids.
His argument that coloured primroses are not hybrids is good, as is idea of discovering primrose parentage by breeding for colours.
Sends Primula MS, which CD has promised to communicate to Linnean Society [see 4213].
Will soon send results on peloric Antirrhinum.
CD too unwell to read. JS should not send Primula paper MS until CD returns home.
JS’s MS [of Primula paper] arrived, but CD is too ill to read it.
CD has sent JS’s paper on orchid sterility to Botanische Zeitung and to Hooker.
Regrets CD’s poor health.
"Do not return Primula MS."
Has read JS’s paper [MS of "Observations on the functions and structure of the reproductive organs in the Primulaceae", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 78–126] which has interested him greatly. Will communicate it to the Linnean Society if JS carries out a few corrections.
Would like to hear about his Verbascum and Passiflora experiments.
CD agrees about reversion.
The discovery of crossing in cryptogams is very interesting.
Has finished correcting Primula paper [see 4332].
Has presented paper on monoecious spikes of maize [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 213–20].
Glad correspondent’s paper went well.
Poor health and much work forces CD to be brief.
CD thinks JS’s Primula paper is fit for publication; he will send it on to the Linnean Society.
Glad CD is sending his Primula paper to Linnean Society.
Sends promised Linum seeds.
JS’s Primula paper was read at the Linnean Society and praised warmly by G. Bentham. Hooker was not present.
Bentham so impressed with JS’s paper that he is invited to become Associate Member of Linnean Society.
Regrets sending his MS missing two pages.
Has proofs of his paper on the monoecious spikes of maize [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 213–20].
J. H. Balfour objected to notion of maize descent from a hermaphrodite.
Reading of JS’s paper on Selaginella hybrid [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 192–9] deferred until March. Believes it is first example of experimentally produced hybridity in higher cryptogams.
Has left his position at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
On fertilisation of Gongora.
His work on peloric Antirrhinum, Passiflora, and Verbascum, done at CD’s suggestion, is at CD’s disposal.
Surprised at CD’s account of Bryanthus.
H. Crüger’s approach to Gongora fertilisation is beset with difficulties.
Reports his work on self-sterility of Oncidium.
Regrets that JS has left the [Edinburgh] Botanic Garden and that [J. D.] Hooker is not in a position to secure a foreign appointment for him. Offers financial assistance on the grounds of science.
Has sent JS a copy of the Reader.
Thanks for CD’s consoling letter. His mind cannot concentrate after losing his position, and he feels "an inward dread of life’s future". Would have been glad to work for CD. Understands why Hooker cannot recommend him.