From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 June 1876
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 17, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
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Contributor:
Hooker Project
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JDH’s suggested text for Lyell’s tablet in Westminster Abbey.
Vigner[?] separates digestive principle from Nepenthes, disproving R. L. Tait.
CD and family suggest inscriptions for Lyell memorial at Westminster Abbey.
CD communicating H. Airy’s paper on phyllotaxis to the Royal Society.
Frank observes pod-like emanations from glands of insectivorous plant ingesting solid insect particles [see 10520].
Returns Mrs Lyell’s versions of Lyell memorial inscription. Disapproves of religious tone.