To J. D. Hooker   20 December 1874

My dear Hooker

M^r J. G. Romanes is very eager to try experiments on Pangenesis.¹ He is a clever & nice young man; a Nat: Sc: scholar & Prize Essayist of Cambridge.² He wishes to try all sorts of experiments in bisecting buds & seeds, tubers &c, grafting &c so as to make graft hybrids. I find I have knowledge enough to advise him, & it has occurred to me that there may be some man at Kew who has had much experience in budding & grafting, & with a suggestive mind. I have told Romanes that you probably could not see him, but that if there was any likely man at Kew you would let him have an interview there, & tell the man to advise & suggest as far as he can.³ If you will let me have a single line, I will write to Romanes and he would come down to Kew & you could either see him or send him a message where to find the man

Yours affectionately | Ch. Darwin