Thanks JM for sending Drosera specimens.
Thanks JM for sending Drosera specimens.
Pleased by favourable English newspaper reviews of Erasmus Darwin. Charles Reinwald has not yet said whether he wants to use annotations intended for German readers.
Thanks for the offer of specimens, but cannot use them due to other work.
FBG greatly interested in CD’s article ["Fertility of hybrids from the Chinese and common goose"] but has not altered his opinion on the matter.
Glad ASW has solved puzzle of outer seeds.
Quite agrees about great improbability of sudden transformations.
Asks for copy of report from Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404].
Gratified by CD’s praise.
Describes plan of his new book [Island life (1880)].
Efforts to secure a post.
Sends enclosure [missing], which HD is to forward to W. E. Darwin, as everyone else has seen it.
Sends some cotton seeds for CD.
Plans a "Darwin Festival" to celebrate CD’s birthday.
"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].
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].