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Lists the 14 men elected to be F.R.S. Garrod defeated McLachlan.

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JDH hopes Thiselton-Dyer does not discourage Frank’s investigation of insectivorous plants.

Preparing new editions of botany text-books.

His marriage is set for August.

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JDH back from his honeymoon.

Finds he has gout, as his father and grandfather had.

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Returns Mrs Lyell’s versions of Lyell memorial inscription. Disapproves of religious tone.

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McLachlan has as strong a claim to be F.R.S. as any entomologist, but Garrod’s work is of higher quality.

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JDH prepares Anniversary Address to the Royal Society [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1876): 339–62].

Return of Challenger.

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Asks CD to come up to vote for Lankester.

Severely critical of R. L. Tait’s paper on Nepenthes communicated to the Royal Society.

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Complains at Albert Günther’s imputations against Charles Wyville Thomson [as a result of the dispute between Thomson and the British Museum, regarding the disposal of the specimens from the Challenger].

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CD thanks JDH for his condolences. Amy’s baby will live with the Darwins.

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JDH has heard from Asa Gray, who approves of the botany primer [Botany (1876)].

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Plants received from JDH.

Requests he verify an identification by Fritz Müller.

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Daughter Henrietta’s illness prevents a trip to London.

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JDH has sent a short-styled Forsythia from Kew. CD surmises that all Forsythia at Kew may be short-styled, hence he is curious to know whether they set seed.

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Promises to vote for Lankester.

Acknowledges faults of R. L. Tait’s paper.

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JDH’s condolences at Amy Darwin’s death.

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CD and family suggest inscriptions for Lyell memorial at Westminster Abbey.

CD communicating H. Airy’s paper on phyllotaxis to the Royal Society.

Frank observes pod-like emanations from glands of insectivorous plant ingesting solid insect particles [see 10520].

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Notes variation in style and stamen length in Forsythia.

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Forwards copies of CD’s geology books.

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Asks JDH to find young imperfect flowers of Hoya. CD has observed seed set although there was no trace of anthers.

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JDH’s suggested text for Lyell’s tablet in Westminster Abbey.

Vigner[?] separates digestive principle from Nepenthes, disproving R. L. Tait.