On Royal Society Council’s deliberations on awards. GJA argues that older men should be given first claim lest they die neglected; CD had stressed importance of encouraging younger men.
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On Royal Society Council’s deliberations on awards. GJA argues that older men should be given first claim lest they die neglected; CD had stressed importance of encouraging younger men.
In his admirable work on expression CD has left out influence of fifth pair of cerebral nerves on the portiodura and on physiognomy; sends reference to his paper on this subject ["On certain points in the physiology and pathology of the fifth pair of cerebral nerves", Med.-Chir. Trans. 52 (1869): 27–42].
Asks for autographs.
Reminds CD of three cards JLA sent in February for CD to sign and date and write his good wishes on.
CD elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [See 9305.]
Thanks for "Two forms of Primula" [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Praise for Orchids.
Has done extensive plant hybridisation: strawberry, raspberry, Rhododendron.
Thanks for CD’s experimental suggestions. Will count seeds of hybrid crosses.
Requests suggestions for Edinburgh Botanical Society expedition to British Columbia.
On holiday; cannot answer CD’s questions.
Has done Primula polyanthus experiment CD suggested.
Bryanthus erectus, said by [D. D.?] Cunningham to be a hybrid, has been found wild in North America.
CD is right on heterostyly in Primula. High praise. Has confirmed it with Primula polyanthus.
Sends sprig of Linum luteum corymbiflorum [?]. CD is right about its being dimorphic.
Will try some odd strawberry crosses this summer.
Will find out identity of Robert Trail.
Offers to send Benoît de Maillet’s Telliamed [1750].
Encloses a letter [16 May 1867] from John Anderson, a nurseryman, giving information on budding of blotched ash at the nursery.
Has crossed pods of Arabis blepharophylla larger than normal ones.
Sends Telliamed as gift.
Details of Arabis crosses. Seed-pods of A. blepharophylla and A. soyeri crosses are longer and wider than those of either species.
Will send proto-Lamarckian pamphlet [1799] by Charles White, if CD wishes. It has a graduated scale of types from snipe to man.
Sends CD photograph of a "natural curiosity", a bear apparently "painted" with red iron on the face of a soft rock; has also sent copies to a few U. S. scientists.
Sends CD seeds of Cattleya crispa as requested [see Collected papers 2: 77–8].
Anticipates success for his attempts to cross orchids artificially. Has not had a single seed germinate from a pod that was not produced by artificial crossing.