Asks for account of sales of Geology of "Beagle". Willing to consider offer for remaining stock in order to close account.
Asks for account of sales of Geology of "Beagle". Willing to consider offer for remaining stock in order to close account.
Thanks for a gift of £20.
Health.
Is sending information about Timor fossils to be forwarded to Hugh Falconer.
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Requesting him to become a member of the newly formed Anthropological Society.
JDH on Asa Gray’s sanguine view of the Civil War and slavery.
Wishes to discuss variation with CD, a subject that Huxley does not understand.
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Particularly interested in TR’s information about peaches. Accepts offer of double-flowering peach-trees.
Will build a small hothouse for experiments.
Enjoyed reading the dialogues of Hermogenes and Hermione [JH's 'On Atoms']. Found William Higgins's book some years ago and it appeared the basis for John Dalton's views. Finds astronomy and geology the basis for Old Testament inspiration. How absurd is the modern notion of circuits.
CD’s paper [on Linum] is announced for reading at the Linnean Society on 5 February.
Experiments to cut Laelia stigma from rostellum and then to fertilise rostellum are baffled by "a latent instinctive power". Somehow the pollen-tubes find their way to the style.
Suggests CD study variation in ferns.
Thanks for "Two forms of Primula" [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Praise for Orchids.
Has sent copy of his paper to Asa Gray.
Melastomad flowers are strikingly neglected by pollinators.
Murray has ordered many illustrations for HWB’s Naturalist on the river Amazons.
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Can TR distinguish generally, always, or never, a nectarine-tree from a peach-tree before it flowers or before it fruits? He wants to quote TR’s answer.
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His work on Mexico has some geology, which might interest CD.
He is currently at work on the "filiation des genres des espèces et des moeurs des guepes [hornets]".
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Jaw with teeth found associated with Archaeopteryx fossil. Waterhouse pronounces it a fish’s jaw.