Thanks CD for considering his protest, which he has now decided not to carry out.
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Thanks CD for considering his protest, which he has now decided not to carry out.
Met CD at a bath the previous summer.
Proposes he work on human illness.
Sends W. Thomson’s complimentary opinion of his paper "On the influence of geological changes on the earth’s axis" [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 167 (1877): 271–312].
Encloses printed letter from Land and Water in which he proposes a hypothesis that explains how soaring birds can stay aloft by expelling air from their lungs.
Sends photograph of man with peculiar facial features, whom HW treated at St Mark’s Ophthalmic Hospital.
Considers different animal instincts, some of which have reversed, others of which have proved persistent.
Informs CD about Apocynum androsaemifolium, an insectivorous plant not mentioned in CD’s book. Offers to send specimen.
Pleased to hear about GHD’s paper at the Royal Society.
Is working at dimorphic plants;
is astonished at WED’s labour.