Discusses present of microscope to Grant Allen.
Mentions sugar-cane paper [by Baron de Villa Franca].
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Discusses present of microscope to Grant Allen.
Mentions sugar-cane paper [by Baron de Villa Franca].
Agrees about Grant Allen affair.
Agrees to write a page or two on behalf of Donald MacAlister.
Sends manuscript by Baron de Villa Franca on the apparent grafting of sugar canes.
Asks to show GJR’s letter to George Darwin and other sons. A secret cannot be well kept.
Thanks GJR for his letter, regrets pressure of other work prevents his giving GJR’s remarks the attention they deserve. GJR makes clearer how an organ that has started to decrease will go on decreasing.
Comments on Spencer’s terms.
Speaks of visiting GJR at the Brown Institution.
Invites GJR to visit.
Thanks GJR for copy of his book [Christian prayer and general laws (1874)].
Discusses breeding and sterility.
Discusses experiments to test Pangenesis. Cites useful references.
Suggests GJR visit Kew gardens.
Urges GJR to visit Hooker at Kew.
Discourages grafting ears of rabbits. Suggests comb of fowl.
Describes accounts of potato grafting in a German journal.
Is sending plants from cut-leaved vine.
Invites GJR to visit.
"When in presence of my ladies do not talk about experiments on animals."