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Comments on Hermann Müller’s article on the structure of Gunnera flowers.

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Will JDH be in London?

Cirripede observations.

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Proposes to visit Kew.

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Will come to Kew on Friday.

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CD’s visit to Kew.

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JDH concerned about preparations for [his address at] Royal Society [anniversary] meeting [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1876): 72–94].

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

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Comments on R. L. Tait’s claimed isolation of digestive ferments from Nepenthes.

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E. R. Lankester is in danger of being black-balled for admission to the Linnean Society; Thiselton-Dyer is in the midst of the fight.

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Asks JDH to try to come to luncheon if he is in London.

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CD is furious at the prospect of Lankester’s being black-balled by the Linnean Society. He plans to solicit support from various members and to come up with Frank for the voting.

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Has read JDH’s paper ["Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 116–233] and thinks it the best essay on geographical distribution he has ever met with. Comments on the paper.

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Thanks for reading paper. Accepts CD’s criticisms; discussion of some points.

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Hopes JDH can come to stay in January.

Thanks for the corallines.

Mention of JDH’s capital speech.

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Can JDH come on 16 Jan? CD will ask the "old set" to come and also the Lyells.

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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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Promises to vote for Lankester.

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

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Requests CD’s evaluation of the work of the entomologist Robert McLachlan, who is up for F.R.S. in competition with the physiologist A. H. Garrod.

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