Dear Darwin

I was disappointed in not getting to you on Saturday, & find that I cannot go next Saturday either as my Curator is going to Belgium and one of us should be here.— I doubt in fact whether I shall get to Albury at all.¹

I fancy that the Violet & Honey-suckle cases are different.² Many Honeysuckles have lobed leaves when young,— some species always, & its behavior on the normal oak is normal— The Violet has no such proclivities & its companion was a similarly abnormal Fern.

Ever yrs affec | J D Hooker

Huxley rates Thompson’s the “Cock-shy” theory— God makes a cockshy of the world.³ I hear that he baisted T. awfully in section D.⁴