FD’s corrections for Orchids [1877] are all very good and useful.
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FD’s corrections for Orchids [1877] are all very good and useful.
Sends last chapter of Orchids [1877] for revision.
Has some articles that might interest FD.
Has invited Ferdinand Cohn and his wife to Down but hopes they will not come.
Sends [unidentified] volume for FD.
Ferdinand Cohn is coming to Down.
Thanks FD for corrections [to Orchids (1877)].
Thinks Johann von Fischer’s paper on monkeys’ rumps [Der Zoologische Garten 17 (1876): 116–27, 174–9] worth translating, and he intends to write a letter on it to Nature [Collected papers 2: 207–11].
Sorry the corrections were so tedious, and offers to do revises.
Sends an article for FD.
Is glad he is able to work on his teasel paper [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1878): 4–8]; suggests some observations FD could make.
Thanks for papers and letter; has been working in the mornings on teasel.
Asks for reference to an article on a mandrill.
Has seen notice on Empetrum but cannot understand how leaves in bud could act as fly-catchers.
Explains how they look after Drosera plants.
Encloses his father’s autograph.
Asks for details of dimorphism in Sethia from Thwaites, Enumeratio plantarum Zeylaniae [1864]. [See Forms of flowers, p. 122.]