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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 May [1863]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: JDH/2/1/2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
No summary available.
Has forwarded a box of Lychnis plants to CD; gives her observations on the variations in stamen length.
Returns CD’s pamphlets.
Wishes CD would work out further what keeps certain species immutable for great periods.
Feels himself a convert, but cannot go all lengths with CD.
Feels some reviewers distort CD’s argument.
Supports, in his orchid paper, CD’s view that sterility occurs at random [Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 7 (1863): 543–50].
Cannot get his Drosera paper published [abstract in Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 17 (1863): 317–18].