Enjoyed HM’s castigation of Gaston Bonnier ["Gaston Bonniers angebliche Widerlegung der modernen Blumentheorie", Kosmos 7 (1880): 219–36].
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Enjoyed HM’s castigation of Gaston Bonnier ["Gaston Bonniers angebliche Widerlegung der modernen Blumentheorie", Kosmos 7 (1880): 219–36].
Thanks for essay.
Confirmation of CD’s idea: AG planted seeds Ipomœa pandurata. One seed has come up and its germination is same as of I. leptophylla.
Thanks for mentioning CarlVogt, to whom he will write.
Comments on Dr Erasmus Darwin’s interest in mental imagery.
Details about tithes.
The article [Francis Darwin, "Climbing plants"] has appeared in Popular Science Review [n.s. 4 (1880): 213–29].
Asks CD to allow John [Richard de Capel] Wise to dedicate a poem to him.
Thanks EHS (Lord Stanley) for his trouble in providing information about the Niagara affair.
CD would be happy to receive the members of the Lewisham and Blackheath Scientific Association at Down.
Asks advice on size of printing for Movement in plants. Expects it to sell a few copies for some years. Asks price of paper and of printing of 250 copies. Sends instructions for the index.
Thanks HWJ for his kind note. If the weather had been better CD could have made the visit [of the Lewisham & Blackheath Scientific Association] more agreeable.
The Birmingham Philosophical Society wishes to establish a Darwin prize medal for original scientific work. A fund is being raised to support research. Asks CD to contribute.
Movement in plants will be 600 pages. Does CD wish to publish at own expense or on the usual terms with Murray? Estimates expense of printing and possible profit.
Wishes to publish CD’s explanation of positions of stones in certain gravelly drifts in a forthcoming book [Prehistoric Europe (1881)].
Announces CD’s election as a Corresponding Member.
Thanks for the honour of election.
CD had intended to pay costs of publishing Movement in plants because he did not think it fair that Murray should risk publishing a purely scientific work. He would certainly prefer publishing on the usual terms if JM decided to do so. The book contains much new and curious matter, but there are very few persons in England interested in physiological botany.
Is honoured by RLT’s announcement, and offers a contribution to the Birmingham scientific fund.
Gives history of the Union; explains plan to encourage original work by offering an annual "Darwin Prize". Asks CD’s permission to use his name.
CD is honoured to have a medal named after him by an organisation [Midland Union of Natural History Societies] dedicated to the advancement of science. [See 12660.]
Writes about gravel deposits [at Southampton] and sends a James Geikie letter [12655?] on the subject.