Has examined sections of teasel in putrid meat infusion and ammonia.
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Has examined sections of teasel in putrid meat infusion and ammonia.
Greatly excited by the astronomical implications of his work.
Anticipates reading Haeckel’s Perigenesis der Plastidule [1876].
Physiologists will think vivisection bill stringent.
Honorary memberships of Physiological Society created expressly to honour CD.
Working hard at jellyfish just now. Needs snake poison.
Has got a dodge to see protoplasm in Drosera in dead state. Comes to Hopedene with Amy tomorrow. his paper went off well.
Sends his papers ["Contributions to the natural history of Kerguelen Island", U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 1, nos. 2, 3 (1876)], which are inspired by Journal of researches.
Sends analysis of burnt and unburnt samples.
References to figures of Coryanthes.
Comments on CD’s criticism of Geographical distribution.
Plans to sell his house.
Delighted to hear of Frank Darwin’s discovery.
Seems hopeless to reason with people about vivisection.
JDH’s suggested text for Lyell’s tablet in Westminster Abbey.
Vigner[?] separates digestive principle from Nepenthes, disproving R. L. Tait.
Comments on an address by William Thomson (‘On the rigidity of the earth’?), which is about the same problem that GHD is working on. Is confident Thomson has overlooked some points.
Coleoptera inhabiting ants’ nests. Means of colonisation of new nests.
Describes cosmological ideas of Christian Radenhausen.