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The insect-capturing Araujia has been forwarded from Portugal.
He discovers Apocynum is not in the same family, and he has misquoted [John Leonard Knapp’s Journal of a naturalist (1829)]; Apocynum captures by stamens, not stigma.
Sends seeds of Portuguese Drosera.
Reports some details of the geological tour he took with Sedgwick in North Wales in 1831. Recalls how neither he nor Sedgwick saw the obvious signs of past glaciation.
Writes about the Vivisection Bill; there is great fear that it may prevent demonstration dissections on insensible animals.
The Vivisection Bill was defeated because it was repudiated by one of its own fathers: J. S. Burdon Sanderson.
Writes again on the Vivisection Bill, expresses his desire not to ruin the progress of physiology whilst avoiding useless vivisection.
Has heard from Italian minister that the inhabitants of the Japanese island of Saghalien [Sakhalin], lately ceded to Russia, have their bodies covered with hair, like the gorilla, and are supposedly the remnant of the aboriginal population of the Japanese islands.
Asks whether enclosure [missing] has the correct title of Insectivorous plants.
Discusses the price to be charged to Appleton’s for the plates of Insectivorous plants.
Replies to CD’s various questions and suggestions concerning publication plans for Insectivorous plants.
A set of electros of the woodcuts to Variation was sent to an Italian publisher in 1869, but no reply or payment has been made since then.