Sending Drosera plants by post instead of rail because they are rotting.
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Sending Drosera plants by post instead of rail because they are rotting.
Thanks for CD’s book [Cross and self-fertilisation] and information on protandry and protogyny.
Health better, but paralysis lingers.
Asks JDH to find young imperfect flowers of Hoya. CD has observed seed set although there was no trace of anthers.
Comments on JG’s book [The great ice age and its relation to the antiquity of man, 2d ed. (1877)]. Recalls erratic boulder he knew in Shropshire as a boy.
Discusses legal arrangements [unspecified].
JDH looking for Hoya for CD.
Hookers tried to visit Down on foot, but weather was too inclement.
Discussing a purchase of land.
Forwards a flower from a Mrs Crawshay, who sees its "evident struggle to become double as another instance of gradual evolution".