Encloses a letter from a Mr Hill on some [unspecified] legal matter.
Encloses a letter from a Mr Hill on some [unspecified] legal matter.
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Darwin's funeral.
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In answer to CD’s query, FM thinks the seeds he sent were those of the sensitive Mimosa.
Reports his observations of movement of leaves of Bauhinia grandiflora and B. brasiliensis. They do not "sleep" in hot weather.
Sends some seeds of Pontederia he had fertilised.
Describes grafting experiment of Baron de Villa Franca, which produced new varieties of sugar-cane. Encloses related documents.
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Thanks GA for his article ["The daisy’s pedigree", Cornhill Mag. 44 (1881): 168–81].
The evolutionary argument that petals are transformed stamens is "striking and apparently valid". Doubts petals are naturally yellow.
Wallace’s "generalization about much modified parts being splendidly coloured" is also dubious except as both are caused by sexual selection.
Thanks VOK for a photograph and his New Year wishes.
Thanks CD for letter for Villa Franca. Would be happy if CD published the Baron’s observations in an English scientific journal.
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Asks GJR’s opinion about grafting experiments on sugar-cane carried out by the Baron [de Villa Franca].
Reports the inconclusive results of some experiments he has been doing for CD [related to plant colouring material?].
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Has sold London & South Western Railway stock and has purchased Great Western stock.
On F. M. Balfour.
Effects of ammonium carbonate on roots.
FM’s Pontederia case is very curious.