Has read Butler’s letter and CD’s draft reply and Litchfield’s letter. Has no hesitation in saying CD should take no notice. Litchfield’s advice is judicious.
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Has read Butler’s letter and CD’s draft reply and Litchfield’s letter. Has no hesitation in saying CD should take no notice. Litchfield’s advice is judicious.
"Dia" [as a prefix] means "through, across".
WED’s wife would like to meet the Huxleys.
Has shown S. Butler’s Athenæum letter to Frederick Pollock, who confirms RBL’s advice that it needs no answer. Sends an imaginary response by Butler.
Advise against making any reply to Samuel Butler’s charges.
WZS, 12-year-old pupil, asks where he can find answer to question of what causes different shades of colour in inhabitants of earth.
Germination of Megarrhiza. AG’s observations at variance with CD’s.
Thinks Huxley’s judgment on answering S. Butler’s charges would be trustworthy, though THH is horribly pugnacious and would naturally be for fighting.
Since CD has decided not to answer S. Butler’s charge, WSD will not reply either.
Will look over Francis Darwin’s lecture ["Climbing plants"] with a view to publishing it in Popular Science Review [19 (1880): 213–29].
Thinks CD has no need to reply to Samuel Butler’s hostile article [in the Athenæum]. Offers to reply himself.
Returns [Butler’s] attack, which he forgot to send yesterday.
Sends birthday wishes.
Discusses work on Medusae.
Recalls visit to Down.
Birthday greetings.
Regrets Butler’s malicious attack.
Describes formation of student nature study club at the University of Jena. Sends birthday greetings from the club.
Sends birthday greetings
and the good news of a subvention for the Zoological Station received from the German government. There are now 20 naturalists working at the Station.
It might be possible to borrow £500 [for potato experiments]. Variety of "The Champion" spreading over the Kingdom. Champion lately less able to produce.
At the inaugural meeting of the Epping Forest & Essex Naturalists’ Field Club, CD was elected an Honorary Member.
Has been at work on Orchideae for Genera plantarum and has found CD’s Orchids wonderfully useful. Comments on some problems of botanical terminology.
Agrees not to reply to Butler.
Asks CD to telegraph a testimonial for him.
On clubroot fungus of cultivated Cruciferae.
Will give Russian wheat varieties another trial.