Will help JH or JH's son [Alexander], whose mind PS admires, in any way possible.
Will help JH or JH's son [Alexander], whose mind PS admires, in any way possible.
ARW listed along with Hooker, Huxley, Lubbock and Bates as the "only honest downright "flat-footed" men in all England!!!".
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Sends photos of the niata ox skull presented by CD.
Lists the six honest believers in his species theory in England.
Asa Gray complains that Lyell acts like a judge on species, whereas CD complains of Lyell’s indecision.
CD working on divergence of leaves.
Distribution of Cameroon plants and the glacial theory.
Survival of island relics.
Has been to Osborne on the Isle of Wight to visit Queen Victoria, who had lots of questions about CD.
Doubts the fruit will stick on his Chinese double peach and asks TR to send him a couple when ripe.
Would like to grow seeds of the "curious monstrosity" of a wall-flower, to see whether the monstrosity is hereditary.
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