Has talked with J. J. Sylvester [Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich] and thinks Leonard [Darwin] should call on him.
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Has talked with J. J. Sylvester [Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich] and thinks Leonard [Darwin] should call on him.
Informs THF that Annals and Magazine of Natural History will publish his paper [see 6384].
Discusses GdeS’s studies on fossil plants;
response to Origin in France.
Wonderful how every flower one looks at is explained by, and throws light on, the fertilising process.
Thinks J. D. Hooker and Asa Gray will not be able to visit Down until after the 12th.
Replies in detail to JH's objection to explaining the retardation of the earth's rotation as due to tidal friction, JH having urged that this effect should be analyzed in terms of momentum rather than of vis viva [kinetic energy], as WT maintained.
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