JC and Farrer are impressed with Torbitt’s papers. Will continue financial support.
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JC and Farrer are impressed with Torbitt’s papers. Will continue financial support.
Covering letter to enclose a memorial [petitioning for a civil list pension for Wallace].
CD is pleased with EK’s account in Kosmos [8 (1880–1): 321–2] of the Buffon and Coleridge passage [cited by Samuel Butler, see 12939, 12969]. Would like a translation published in England, but Butler seeks notoriety and would make unscrupulous use of it. Will ask advice. Thinks EK’s letter to Popular Science Monthly, just received, an excellent reply to Butler.
Memorial for Wallace pension dispatched to W. E. Gladstone.
Thanks CD for a second copy of Movement in plants. His letter acknowledging the first must have gone astray. Marvels at the number of interesting observations and is honoured by CD’s mention of his work.
In recent years GH has been applying CD’s principles to the histologico-anatomical structure of plant organs. He will send CD the papers.
Passes on legal advice.
He will recommend a pension of £200 a year for Wallace.
Letter of introduction for V. O. Kovalevsky.
Gladstone has recommended yearly pension of £200 for Wallace.
Informs ARW of favourable reception by Gladstone of memorial respecting ARW’s services to science, and the establishment of a pension for him.
Success of the memorial for Wallace. Sends letter from Gladstone.
Congratulates THH on appointment as Inspector of Fisheries.
CD expresses his great pleasure at WEG’s letter informing him that Wallace has been granted a pension.
Good news from Gladstone [concerning pension for Wallace]. Duke of Argyll’s private note greatly influenced Gladstone.
Has heard that Gladstone will recommend A. R. [Wallace] for a pension. Thanks the Duke for having written to Gladstone on the matter.
Sends photograph.
Announces the resolution passed by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s conference of 7 Jan 1881.
Congratulates CD on success of Wallace memorial.
Butler has attacked again.
CD may choose where to publish EK’s reply to Butler. Would prefer Athenæum. Thinks it better that CD not reply himself.
Appreciation of CD’s efforts in recommending him for pension. Asks about proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.
Report on the progress of his experiments with potatoes; some varieties spoilt by an apparently hereditary disease.