Hive-bees captured in tubes of nectary of Tritoma. Seems a maladaptation of the bees.
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Hive-bees captured in tubes of nectary of Tritoma. Seems a maladaptation of the bees.
Encloses his marriage present, which he fears Sara [Darwin née Sedgwick] will think "atrociously unsentimental", but he hopes useful.
Is glad to hear R. B. Litchfield is better.
Discusses William Darwin’s engagement to Sara Sedgwick.
About 150 copies remain of Forms of flowers.
Thanks CD for present of £300.
Speculates that the function of "bloom" is to prevent evaporation.
Raised CD’s question about the geographical distribution of glaucous plants at recent botanical meeting.
Thanks CD for acknowledging receipt of JDC’s book The antelope and deer of America [1877].
Castration suppresses deer antlers.
CD has made clear that in Cross and self-fertilisation he had not intended to suggest that autogamie (fertilisation of a flower by its own pollen) is superior to gitonogamie (fertilisation of a flower by one on the same plant).
Sends article and photograph of abnormally hairy family.
Mentions death of his student, Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm.
Thanks GdeS for communicating his discovery. It is especially important at a time when several naturalists have declared that development occurs quite suddenly at intervals. Joseph Le Conte in N. America urges that even new families and orders are developed within an extremely short period.
Another issue of Origin will be needed for Murray’s annual sale. Has CD any corrections?
Asks whether CD considers it possible that a mollusc could poison anyone on contact, as RD has heard from missionaries about a certain South Sea variety.
Pleased CD is satisfied with translation of Cross and self-fertilisation.
Sends £20 royalties for Insectivorous plants (700 sold).
Gives a possible explanation of exceptions to CD’s observation [Descent, ch. 7] that characters correlated with one sex tend to appear late in life.
Electrotypes and heliotypes can now be sent to Hjalmar Linnström, since payment is guaranteed by the Swedish Consul.
Sends a query he would like GHD to put to Clerk Maxwell: why does a sponged leaf dry more rapidly, although sponging cannot remove the waxy bloom from the minute pores through which it is secreted?
Is very glad to hear about tides in the earth.
Sends notes on expression [missing].
JDH has just returned from U. S., where he worked on N. American geographical distribution with Asa Gray.
JBI reports that the editor of Journal of Horticulture has identified the tree at Loch Carron as Sambucus racemosa, red-berried elder.
Would like to see the Kosmos article.
Is considering producing a translation of August Weismann’s essays.
Comments on Wallace’s paper on the colours of animals and plants [Macmillan’s Magazine 36 (1877): 384–408, 464–71].