Discusses his health following a visit to Dr C[lark?]. Has made an appointment for CD.
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Discusses his health following a visit to Dr C[lark?]. Has made an appointment for CD.
Corrects chemical concentrations CD has been using [in insectivorous plant experimentation].
Criticises CD’s letter to Nature ["Complemental males in certain cirripedes", Collected papers 2: 177–82].
On the elimination of useless parts.
GHD fails to see the point of CD’s use of the law of distribution about a mean.
Sends table showing relative force of impact of weight dropped on a plane inclined at different angles.
Sends CD a draft of a letter to Nature [see 9087], which he thinks expresses CD’s meaning.
Has decided to send the letter ["Variation of organs", Nature 8 (1873): 505].
Writes of his poor health and problems of settling in at Trinity.
On bodies of varying elasticity bouncing off inclined planes [see 9096].