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Regrets delay in answering letter but has been away from Collingwood and letter was not forwarded. Is unwilling to write article for another journal as he is already producing articles for an editor. Would editor of Good Words be interested in printing three lectures he gave at Hawkhurst on volcanoes, comets, and the sun? Could work this up for an article.
Asks for information about cases for stove-plants. [Answers recorded in another hand.]
Asks for authentic information on following questions: 1. Has the weight of the gooseberry variety London subsequently exceeded the 1845 record of 880 grains?
2. Is any record kept of the diameter of the largest pansies?
3. How early does any variety of Dahlia flower and do some varieties withstand frost better than others?
Sends first three of his Lectures to working men [on our knowledge of the phenomena of organic nature (1863)]. Does not intend them to be widely circulated.
Sends CD a Chinese breed of guinea-pig. Has heard it claimed that the domestic guinea-pig will not interbreed with the wild rock cavy and that, therefore, artificial selection has formed a new species.
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Apologises for not writing last summer. Scientific progress is all but complete. Our civilisation will fall now that it has reached the peak of its development.
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JS’s facts on Primula are new to CD.
In Linum CD has also found dimorphic and non-dimorphic species.
Plans to publish next autumn on successive homomorphic generations in Primula.
"Fluctuating forms" due to culture.
Urges JS to publish.
Lobelia functionally monoecious.
Where did JS publish on Clivia hybrids? Did he count parent and cross seeds, as Gärtner shows is necessary?
CD has done large experiments on artificially fertilised cowslips. They never resemble oxlips.
Would welcome detailed criticism of natural selection by a careful observer like JS. Most criticism worthless. Expects a great deal from Lyell’s reaction.
Suggests JS do orchid experiment to see if rostellum can be penetrated by pollen.
In light of recent discussions of metric system, which WS dislikes for 'lack of divisibility,' asks where to find JH's article on advantages of British measurement system.
Illness has prevented his reading Origin. He has, however, expressed his [negative] opinion on the subject of mutability of species in his Manual of geology [1862]. Since his persuasions are so strong, he can do no less.
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Apologises for the trouble he has caused over his enquiries about strawberries. Describes the problems he and Emma have had with Verbascum.
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Is sending from the Navy Board a new publication.