In our British dioecious Viscum I suppose it must be necessary.

Was there anything to show that the stigma was ready for pollen in these two cases?
for it seems that there are many cases in which pollen is shed long before the stigma is ready.

As in our Viscum, insects carry, sufficiently regularly for impregnation, pollen from flower to flower, I should think that there must be occasional crosses even in an hermaphrodite Viscum.

I have never heard of bees and butterflies, only moths, producing fertile eggs without copulation.
With respect to the Ray Society, I profited so enormously by its publishing my Cirrepedia, that I cannot quite agree with you on confining it to translations; I know not how else I could possibly have published.
I have just sent in my name for 20 pounds to the Linnaean Society, but I must confess I have done it with heavy groans, whereas I daresay you gave your 20 pounds like a light-hearted gentleman...
P.S.Wollaston speaks strongly about the intermediate grade between two varieties in insects and mollusca being often rarer than the two varieties themselves.

This is obviously very important for me, and not easy to explain.