Discusses the research for his paper on Arctic plant beds in the freshwater aquifers of Scania (Nathorst 1872).
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Discusses the research for his paper on Arctic plant beds in the freshwater aquifers of Scania (Nathorst 1872).
On cats’ habit of leaving the room or house in which a corpse is lying.
Kew’s Drosera capensis is at CD’s service.
Arranges to visit CD at Down.
R. Cooke has increased the order for heliotypes [for Expression] to 8000. Reimburses CD for cost of artists.
Asks whether he may have the sheets of Expression to produce a Russian edition.
Studying palaeontology, as the British Museum is closed.
Sends extract [from Carl Johan Andersson, Lake Ngami (1856)] on expression.
Discusses the mental powers and habits of animals and considers that those of man are not separated from those of animals by any sort of fundamental barrier; the gulf seems formidable only from a self-conscious, human point of view. Man’s important distinction is his greater ability to act and respond independently of external stimuli, in consequence of his internal accumulation of personal experience.
Alexander [Kovalevsky] is intent on assisting Russian publication of Expression. Sends estimates of costs and profits. At 7s 6d per copy a net profit of £150–200 is expected.
Wilhelm Wundt [Menschen und Thierseele (1863)] probably of no use.
Sends CD a book on mule breeding in Poitou [Eugène Ayrault, De l’industrie mulassière en Poitou (1867)].
Beginning work on his African travels [The African sketch-book (1873)].
J. J. Moulinié is ill in Geneva, but translations of Origin and Descent progress.
Will undertake to publish translation of Expression.
J. J. Moulinié’s mental faculties are much weakened.
Fortunately Descent and Origin are completely translated except the indexes.
A new translator will be needed for Expression.
Impressions of Duluth and the natural history of its environs.
Disputes Thomas Meehan’s observations on the hardiness of exposed buds, and believes bud-scales are for the protection of the bud-leaves. Reiterates his opinion that the phyllotaxy of a plant is determined by causes acting when the leaves are crowded into close contact. Attempts to explain how a different phyllotaxy on the upper and lower parts of the same shoot could have arisen.
His visit to Down.
Requests financial support for horticultural researches, which, he promises, will enormously increase yields.
Thanks for letter, in which CD cited [Anton] Kerner’s alpine observations.
Describes with diagrams the curious disposition of leaves on some Acacia twigs, and points out that his theory should account for these anomalies as well as normal cases.
Acting as Superintendent of Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta.
Observations on worm-castings in India.