Has left his position at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
Has left his position at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
No summary available.
Struck with corresponding positions of tendrils and flower-stalks in Passiflora. Sends [W. E. Darwin’s] dissection drawings of earliest stages. Infers that tendril is a modified flower peduncle.
Requests DO look at mode of climbing in Tecoma.
Request for plants.
CD’s continuing ill health.
No summary available.
Alterations to proofs of JH's plate [on sunspots].
Discusses homologies of plant organs.
The passion-flower tendril should be considered a modified branch rather than a modified flower. Considers the distinction between the peduncle and the leaf midrib.
[Charles?] Pritchard has embittered the subject so he must just acknowledge the receipt of JH's letter.
Alterations to proofs of JH's plate [on sunspots]. Explains tinting process.
No summary available.
No summary available.
Has drawn all three forms of primroses CD sent "with same result". Has found no pink variety with middle style.
Is unable to attend another meeting of the Standards Committee, due to severe illness; describes the best way to pack the standards away, and talks about the strange behavior of gallic acid.
No summary available.
CD wants WED to make some measurements on mid-styled [Primula sinensis] plants.
List of four plants sent.
Apologizes for printer's misspelling of JH's name on plate. Encloses letter from Hanhart Lithographers with suggestions on tinting JH's plate of solar spots.
Announces son William's engagement to Emma Hardcastle; warns son John against the Anglo-Indian ladies; JH comments at length on a problem in surveying, and concludes with the news that daughter Francisca's health is improving.
No summary available.
Request for plant.
Receipt of Oliver’s letter.