"I am much obliged for your note. I have heard of the other analogous cases, but there remains a doubt whether they may not be accidental coincidences, for such cases certainly occur in non-Jewish families.––"
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"I am much obliged for your note. I have heard of the other analogous cases, but there remains a doubt whether they may not be accidental coincidences, for such cases certainly occur in non-Jewish families.––"
The honour RLT proposes [Darwin Festival] is a great one, "but would it not be better to wait until I am in my grave?"
Responds to article in Nature on the sexual colours of butterflies [Collected papers 2: 220–2].
Sends a seedling Drosera capensis.
CD’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, must have published on arsenic, as his father never published on medical subjects.
Thanks for cotton seeds.
Germination of Megarrhiza.
Sends copy of Kosmos [containing Krause’s article on Erasmus Darwin].
Believes he can spare an Erasmus Darwin letter.
The violent stranding of floating ice as first mentioned in CD’s article ["Ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire", Collected papers 1: 163–71] is the most remarkable of the Moel Tryfan phenomena.
What are functions of "yeomen of the armoury" on p. 1? Who is "old Hooker" on p. 34? Needs to explain them in annotations [to Erasmus Darwin].
Send CD a present of a fur coat.
Thanks his children for their present of a fur coat.
The Birmingham Philosophical Society proposes to celebrate CD’s birthday and make him their first Honorary Member. RLT will draft the address.
Suspects WTT-D is the author of a good review of Erasmus Darwin in Nature [21 (1880): 245–7].
Sends publications.
Discusses comparative anatomy and evolutionary implications of several ligaments.
Thinks effects of Chinese foot-binding are inherited.
Criticises article on Darwinism in Brockhaus’ Lexikon.
Mentions forthcoming book on mammalian vertebrae.
Describes the germination and early growth of Megarrhiza about which AG has been misinformed. The tubular petioles act functionally like a root.
Ipomoea did not germinate.
Replies to EK’s queries about German translation of CD’s preface to Erasmus Darwin.
Sends seed attached to breast feathers of a heron that had been shot.
Germination of Delphinium and Megarrhiza.
Thanks EH for copy of book [Das System der Medusen (1879)].
SB has decided to lay the matter [the subject of 12393 and 12396] before the public and has written to the Athenæum stating the facts. [Athenæum 31 Jan 1880.]