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Forwards a letter from H. W. Bates to JDH announcing HWB’s appointment as Assistant Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society.
Is burning to hear CD’s reaction to Wallace’s excellent paper on man ["Origin of human races and the antiquity of man", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].
Wallace’s disclaimer of credit for natural selection is high-minded.
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JDH suggests Scott go to India; he will write letters of introduction.
Conversation with Herbert Spencer.
George Bentham would like to know how CD’s view of hybridism diverges from Charles Naudin’s.
JDH is writing letters for Scott, whose temper will be "no obstacle for Hindoos and Musselmen working under him".
New curator at Kew finds considerable neglect, with hundreds of plants dying.
CD’s photograph looks like J. R. Herbert’s Moses in the fresco in the House of Lords.
JDH is delighted about oxlip, but hybridity does not explain some large patches that are uniform and do not vary towards either cowslip or primrose.
Encloses letter from W. H. Harvey discussing Myosotis sylvatica and the common dandelion.
JDH busy reforming Kew’s operations.
Falconer may "fall foul" of Huxley’s anger over his attacks on Lyell.
Has heard of a coffee plantation post for Scott.
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JDH going to visit W. H. Harvey in Ireland.
New curator at Kew.
JDH pursues the coffee plantation job for Scott.
Wrote 14 letters today. JDH’s work load.
Returned from Ireland, JDH wishes to visit Down.
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The Kew agent has looked into ships to Calcutta for Scott, who should come to Kew.
Replies to CD’s queries on climbing plants.
Replies to queries on climbing plants.
JDH meets Scott and finds him an intelligent and superior-looking man. Scott wishes to come to Down before leaving England.
Hookers and Lyells will visit Lubbocks so he cannot see CD in London.
Will CD sit for Woolner?
John Scott has sailed.
Concurs with Lyell that CD need not reply to Kölliker.
CD’s Bignonia plants cannot be told apart without flowers.
R. I. Murchison’s address [see 4595] smashes Ramsay’s glacial theory.
JDH defends his view that CD should not answer Kölliker.
Rejoices that CD is beginning "the book of books", Variation.
Suggests that changes in colour of pollen, stigma, and corolla, as Scott reports in his Primula paper, may be related to changes in the insects required for pollination.
Supports Gärtner translation by Ray Society.
Comments on recent addresses by Lyell [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): lx–lxxv], Bentham [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 8 (1864): ix–xxiii], and Murchison [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): 130–6].
