Sends camera outlines of pollen. Thinks the red longstyled ones are more sterile than the yellow.
Sends camera outlines of pollen. Thinks the red longstyled ones are more sterile than the yellow.
Notes on the caste system of India; its influences on form and habit.
Observations for CD on oxlips, which she finds never grow near cowslips or primroses.
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Will be proud to publish CD’s new work on domestic animals [Variation]. Will announce it as the complement of the Origin. Advises on woodcuts; does not wish to limit number; agrees to CD’s suggestions for artists.
Most of the letter is devoted to a mathematical derivation to show that part of son John's work on errors in geodetic observations is in error; however, part is highly praised by JH. Remainder of letter is clearly intended as a morale booster for John.
Thanks for letter, but has not received W. E. Hickson's memoir. Regrets JH sees no use in a survey of the North Pole region. The scheme seems to be one that the President of the Geographical Society should encourage. The ribald buffoonery of the Times has done much good amongst the scientific world.
Did not know that the Arnee had been called a Bubalus.
Thanks for information about shrimps.
A friend of hers is writing a memoir of her brother Thomas Drummond, and would be glad for a few minutes conversation with JH.
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Written for Mary Somerville. Requests information on sunspots and on William Huggins's observations of nebulae. Mary is recovering from illness. They send regards to Herschels.
Discusses proposed publication of Variation.
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Would like a copy of JH's letter that he wrote many years ago in support of an invention by her brother.
Longs to hear from AD; comments on JH's health and on the weather.
The winter has not killed them, though his wife is a convalescent. Knows Mr. Peters as he is a member of the Athenaeum. Airy has fun in him and a love of Greek Drama. Charles Babbage and James South are at war again. Sends jokes.
Asks to borrow Botanische Zeitung (1860) with Friedrich Alefeld on Pisum [pp. 204–5].
JDH should ask George Busk whether he knows a better doctor than William Jenner "for giving life to a worn out poor devil".
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Reports on accommodations and the activities of those family members with JH.