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Discusses corrections to Variation.

Extends invitation to E. Ray Lankester to visit Down.

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Would be obliged for correction of references in Variation [1st ed.].

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CD obliged about the Schrankia

and thanks WTT-D for details of last number of Gardeners’ Chronicle.

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Suggests WTT-D read account of Bignonia capreolata in forthcoming Climbing plants.

Plans experiments [on Melastomataceae]. Describes similar experiment performed on Monochaetum. Interested in meaning of differently coloured stamens.

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Thanks for information. Absorption of ammonium carbonate by glandular hairs.

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Encloses manuscript [missing] by George King ["Sport in Paritium", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 15 (1877): 101–3].

Sends thanks to Hooker for correction of name. Mentions other errors.

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Wants Imantophyllum for crossing experiments.

Is glad WTT-D thinks George King’s notes worth sending to the Linnean Society.

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Discusses blackballing of E. R. Lankester [at Linnean Society]. Reports on his attempts to persuade other Fellows to support Lankester’s election.

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CD’s attempts to get support for Lankester among Fellows of the Linnean Society. He has encountered opposition to the Council.

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Thanks WTT-D for his present of Sachs’s book [Textbook of botany (1875)].