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Thanks his correspondent for his letter; hopes he will convey to the president how obliged he is for the invitation, which he cannot accept as it would tire him too much.
Has studied the Comparettia falcata, not mentioned in Orchids, and found it is often self-fertilising.
Writes of his observations on the "valves of Houston" in the rectum, which he believes to be rudimentary organs.
JDH cannot attend at the bestowal of CD’s honorary doctorate at Cambridge.
O. C. Marsh is rash to suggest all vertebrate types originated in America.
Asks for Cassia seed for experiments.
CD declines to write for RLT’s new journal. He is not fitted for the work and dislikes it particularly. It costs loss of time as he "cannot change with ease from one job to another".
Memorandum on Silchester. Report by IGJ of investigations carried out at Silchester with Frank and Horace [Darwin] on earthworm activity at the site of a Roman villa. Sections of vertical cuttings at Silchester, traced from the journal of the excavations of the Roman house, and notes on the same.
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Having a splendid time at awarding of LL.D.
Thanks for bananas.
Nomenclature for kinds of heliotropism.
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Deeply grateful for THH’s tribute to him at conferring of LL.D. at Cambridge.
Gives exceptions to maize being monoecious, as CD claims in Cross and self-fertilisation; reversion may be cause of hermaphrodite flowers observed.
Sends paper on potatoes and asks CD to republish.
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Thinks EH’s translation of Cross and self-fertilisation [1877] is excellent.
Would like him to do Forms of flowers, but Reinwald is afraid to have it translated in the present political state of France.
A poem in tribute to CD following the award of his Cambridge LL.D.