He will soon take over editorship of Gardeners’ Chronicle and hopes for CD’s continued support.
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He will soon take over editorship of Gardeners’ Chronicle and hopes for CD’s continued support.
Sends a "Lanc & York" [railway share?].
No summary available.
They have left Kew to improve J. D. Hooker’s health.
May his son George call for advice on his career?
CD has been ill for past four months.
Reading Carl Vogt [Lectures on man (1864)].
Vogt, though anti-Lamarck, is converted to Darwinism.
J. D. Hooker’s health is improving;
he has been offered the Directorship at Kew.
Thanks CD for paper ["Climbing plants"].
Reports case of variation becoming at once hereditary – a crested blackbird with crested young.
J. D. Hooker is recovering from his ill health.
Discusses the climbing movements of plants and describes experiment to establish a mechanical explanation for double spiralling movements of tendrils.
No summary available.
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On his reading: George Eliot,
T. F. Jamieson on Scottish glaciation.
Glad Lyell–Lubbock affair is over.
His grief over loss of father and child.
Expects to publish an account of his journeys soon.
Asks CD’s support for his Royal Society candidacy.
Goldfields he discovered are now being worked.
Agrees with JDH on difference in grief over loss of father and of child. His love of his father.
The Reader.
Politics and science.
Health improved by Bence Jones’s diet.
[Dated "Thursday 27th" by CD.]