Has decided to send R. L. Tait’s paper to the Royal Society.
Will try glycerine on Mimosa but doubts it will have an effect.
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Has decided to send R. L. Tait’s paper to the Royal Society.
Will try glycerine on Mimosa but doubts it will have an effect.
Gives directions for growing plants he has sent and corrects CD’s taxonomy.
Describes observations by his son Horace on the extreme sensitivity of twisted seeds to moisture.
Comments on Hermann Müller’s article on the structure of Gunnera flowers.
JDH concerned about preparations for [his address at] Royal Society [anniversary] meeting [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1876): 72–94].
Comments on R. L. Tait’s claimed isolation of digestive ferments from Nepenthes.
E. R. Lankester is in danger of being black-balled for admission to the Linnean Society; Thiselton-Dyer is in the midst of the fight.
No summary available.
Asks JDH to try to come to luncheon if he is in London.
CD is furious at the prospect of Lankester’s being black-balled by the Linnean Society. He plans to solicit support from various members and to come up with Frank for the voting.