Has sent the Utricularia with the bladders that CD described.
In Variation CD does not mention a rare breed of Siamese cat, which she owns.
Asks for another photograph.
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Has sent the Utricularia with the bladders that CD described.
In Variation CD does not mention a rare breed of Siamese cat, which she owns.
Asks for another photograph.
An anonymous letter praising the Origin.
He has physical peculiarities that support CD’s theories: e.g., ability to dilate nostrils like a rabbit and to spread out the toes of both feet.
Sends copy of one of his books.
Asks for drawing of CD’s right foot.
Thiselton-Dyer’s announcement of his inability to continue as JDH’s private secretary is a blow. He will now be doing original work. JDH is glad of that but the loss of his help is great.
Sends CD a statement of number of thousands of copies printed thus far [by Murray’s] of: Journal of researches (12), Origin (13), Descent (10), and Expression (9).
Utricularia has broken into pieces and appears to be decaying.
Describes the coral formations of Zanzibar and east coast of Africa.
CD should remove packing moss, and he will find bladders in foot-stalks of Utricularia DN sent.
Experimenting on insectivorous plants.
Implores CD to visit.
Thanks for photograph.
Has translated Origin into Serbian and wants CD’s authorisation to publish.
Describes his observations on Utricularia montana.
States his admiration for CD’s views and their progress in the U. S.
Asks JDH to cut a bit of root from old Utricularia and bring it with him to Down.
Sends papers and references.
Reports his microscopic observations on Drosera and other plants.
Sends CD his photo
and a copy of his address at Hartford ["Change by gradual modification not the universal law", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. (1874) pt 2: 7–12]. Does not believe his observations are unfavourable to natural selection but feels there are other factors involved in the origin of form.
Discusses further his work on colour and sex in plants; the linking of high colour and maleness.
Will send a different Utricularia species when the seedlings are better established.
Thanks for sending papers by Hermann Hoffmann.
Discusses spiral cells in Drosera and Pinguicula.
CD’s Utricularia findings – bladders, subterranean roots, and insects decomposing in them – a grand discovery.
Sends a copy of his book on Swiss ants [Les fourmis de la Suisse (1874)]. Notes points and passages that he thinks will interest CD.
Comments on digestive action of pepsin and hydrochloric acid.
Photograph of Rubens’ picture has not arrived.