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From George Henslow   24 October 1876

7 Bentinck Terrace | Regents Park | N.W

Oct 24 76

My dear Sir,

I beg to thank you very sincerely for your kind letter, & for the offer of your book, which I shall be proud to accept & have great pleasure in reading.1 I am much obliged for yr. remarks about the temperature affecting the protandry & protogyny of flowers, & I will observe, next year, with special reference to this fact.2

With reference to “dwarfed” flowers: as I stated in my paper; I, at present, do not feel justified in doing more than “suspecting”; as I have had no opportunity of protecting such flowers, nor of seeing whether they produce much fruit, like the regularly self-fertilising species.—

I have to thank you for kindly enquiring after my health. I am happy to say I now enjoy excellent health tho’ paralysis still lingers in a mild form.3

Believe me to be | yrs very faithfully | George Henslow

1
See letter to George Henslow, 23 October [1876]. CD offered to send Cross and self fertilisation.
3
Henslow had fallen ill in 1873, and believed his paralysis to be due to a fatty degeneration of the nervous tissues (see Correspondence vol. 21, letters from J. D. Hooker, 11 April 1873 and 16 September 1873).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10652,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10652