Has seen some curious hybrid ducks and geese of Bartlett’s. Bartlett will do experiments suggested by CD when he has time.
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JL is off to visit Scotch "kjökken möddings".
Hopes Lyell is not really vexed by his article.
Family eagerly awaits WJH's return home after ten years in India. JH is visiting cousins in Halton. Locations of WJH's brothers and sisters. If possible, stop in Malta and visit William Lassell's equatorial reflector. Alexander Herschel will lecture on meteors at Royal Institution.
Sends two spikes of Corydalis.
Admits he may have drawn false inference from MTM’s division of peloria into two classes.
Preparations under way to move to London account for delay in thanking CD for his review [Collected papers 2: 87–92].
His book is finished, and he is sending a copy to CD; owing to the great expense few copies will be sent to reviewers.
Thanks HWB for his book [Naturalist on the river Amazons]. Feels sure it will often be alluded to in other works.
Asa Gray is fascinated by the "Butterfly paper" ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566].
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Reminds JH that the Public School Commissioners are still awaiting JH's response to the invitation to comment on the direction of education [see ET's 1862-11-13].
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The war is nearly finished, "rebeldom is ""gone up"" ".
Thanks for help in Mrs. Baldwin's affairs. JH's family's health is improving. Major house repairs in progress.
In response to the request [see Edward Twisleton's 1863-4-10] to comment on mathematics and physical science education for the Public School Commissioners, JH urges that more teaching be done in these areas.
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Working on monstrous Primula. Is ovule anatropous as Asa Gray says, or amphitropous? Does he know natural path of pollen tubes in Primula. Can the tube enter the ovule by the chalaza?
Encourages JS to publish on sterility of orchids and to experiment on Passiflora.
Doubted Hooker’s poppy case.
Describes case of primrose with three pistils: when pulled apart allowed pollen to be placed directly on ovules. This supports JS’s explanation of H. Crüger’s case.
Thanks for CD’s Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Has not published much because he would be ignored as a gardener; hence he is looking for a foreign appointment.
Has prepared orchid sterility paper at CD’s suggestion [Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 7 (1863): 543–50].