Hopes JDH will beat Sir Douglas Galton.
Continues to work on insectivorous plants.
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Hopes JDH will beat Sir Douglas Galton.
Continues to work on insectivorous plants.
Wants references to facts quoted in Variation for an essay he is writing on origin of British cattle.
JDH wins over Douglas Galton and Lord Henry Lennox on assistant secretary for himself.
Has called on Murray and told him Quarterly Review had disgraced itself by attacking George and CD.
Astonished at JDH’s success versus Galton
and his attack on Murray is superb. Has written a formal letter to Mivart enumerating his offences.
Sends a letter from Anton Dohrn, which, if CD approves, will be printed with a list of all donors to the Naples Zoological Station. AGD-S has just returned from a visit to the Station and gives an account of its status. German government has made a grant.
Agrees with CD on vivisection. Will communicate with Burdon Sanderson and see what can be done.
Mivart’s wriggle.
Writes on behalf of Royal Society Polar Committee for suggestions concerning instructions to naturalists on new expedition.
Sends suggestions for observations on glacial phenomena that might be made on the [Polar] expedition [of H. M. S. Alert and Discovery, 1875–6].
Does CD think it desirable for EBT’s wife to produce a new English translation of A. E. Brehm’s work [Illustrirtes Thierleben (1864–7)]?
Suspects a plant he has found, Hyoscyamus niger, is insectivorous. Its hairs in water caused dissolution of egg-white.
Account of the fund to help Anton Dohrn’s zoological station at Naples.
Sends his paper.