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Reports on state of family’s health.

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Has read correspondent’s notice on bent cleavage. Refers him to observations on the same fact in South America, p. 160. CD has also suggested a conjectural explanation.

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Lady Dorothy [Nevill] has written very obligingly and sent a lot of orchids.

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Discusses stock-brokers; hopes to be able to see WED at Christmas.

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Lists pairs of Oxalis species with differing proportions of stamens and styles.

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Reports events at Down;

has been doing good work on the homologies of orchids.

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CD is sending an orchid flower; asks JL to identify it.

Also asks if JL can spare a dried flower of another orchid (name forgotten) [which CD describes] so that he can try to trace its ducts or spiral vessels.

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Refers CD to a paper which he ought to know: Ch. Fermond, "Faits pour servir à l’histoire générale de la fécondation chez les végétaux", Recueil des travaux de la Société d’émulation pour les sciences pharmaceutiques 3 (1859).

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Thanks GB for arranging for his paper ["Two forms of Primula", Collected papers 2: 45–63] and for his photograph.

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CD sends thanks for many valuable dried specimens [of orchids]. Has been promised Catasetum and some Dendrobium by Mr Rucker; has written also to Lady Dorothy [Nevill].

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Thanks GB for valuable letter [3331].

Will follow his suggestion about violets.

Discusses differences between Thymus and Primula.

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Knows nothing of the habits of earwigs. Thinks Edward Newman may be trusted on the point [as to whether or not earwigs can fly].

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Requests more precise details about Oxalis, to which GB referred in his remarks on Primula.

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Would prefer to have Primula paper published in the Linnean Society’s Journal rather than Transactions.

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List of references on orchid structure and fertilisation.

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Thanks for "multitudinous" references.

Thanks Hooker for orchids.

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Sends notes on fertilisation of Victoria regia tending to show that impregnation with foreign pollen increases productivity of seeds.

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Asks JDH to look at movement of labellum in an orchid.

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JDH asked to check Lindley on Acropera.

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Rostellum of Masdevallia.