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Enjoyed HM’s castigation of Gaston Bonnier ["Gaston Bonniers angebliche Widerlegung der modernen Blumentheorie", Kosmos 7 (1880): 219–36].

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Thanks for his very kind letter.

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CD thanks RLT for his two notes, a newspaper article, and a copy of RLT’s address honouring him.

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Thanks EK for kind letter.

CD’s date on epitaph is a dreadful mistake. CD often overlooks errata.

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Thanks society of students at Jena for birthday congratulations.

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Thanks for articles by ASW in Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404]. Agrees with him.

Asks about growth of rootlets from knobs caused by fungus on roots of Cruciferae.

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Torbitt too poor to go on with [potato] experiments. If anything is to be done it must be by Government.

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At the inaugural meeting of the Epping Forest & Essex Naturalists’ Field Club, CD was elected an Honorary Member.

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Would be glad to see RLT at Down if he thinks it fit to come there to deliver the address honouring CD.

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Has been at work on Orchideae for Genera plantarum and has found CD’s Orchids wonderfully useful. Comments on some problems of botanical terminology.

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Thanks AD and the naturalists at the Station for their birthday congratulations.

CD has been awarded the Bressa prize of the Accademia delle Scienze in Turin, and it occurs to him that if the Station wanted some apparatus costing about £100, he would like to pay for it.

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Agrees not to reply to Butler.

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CD pleased to be of use to GB. He remembers his own work on orchids with pleasure. Thinks GB will be able to improve CD’s terminology for orchids.

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Enjoyed his visit to Down.

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Asks CD to telegraph a testimonial for him.

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Asks CD’s help in obtaining data on finger-prints – both of ancient impressions in pottery and of living men of all races. Suggests a comparative study with similar markings of lemuroid monkeys might yield results of value about man’s origin. Gives the practical utility of prints in identification in criminal and legal studies and investigations. Encloses a form.

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Seed germination.

Strange that his plants [of Megarrhiza] behaved differently from AG’s [see 12455].

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On clubroot fungus of cultivated Cruciferae.

Will give Russian wheat varieties another trial.

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Thanks for the honour conferred upon him by the Epping Forest Field Club.

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Testimonial for S. B. J. Skertchly, stating CD’s high opinion of his work.