Obliged for letter about horns of sheep.
Mentions case of death from objects impacted in appendix.
Is aware of his error about snipe breeding.
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Obliged for letter about horns of sheep.
Mentions case of death from objects impacted in appendix.
Is aware of his error about snipe breeding.
Suggests that his Coral reefs be republished.
His indignation at the malignant, odious, hypocrite Owen’s attack on JDH. History of Secretaryship [of Royal Society in Nature 9 (1873): 129–30] was best answer to Owen.
Is hard at work on new edition of Descent – a truly awful job.
No use going on with experiments on effects of water on bloom-divested leaves. May have erred. Or it may be that water is only injurious when there is a good supply of actinic rays. Will wait until spring.
Will do what he can to help JC-B with his work on expression of patients suffering from general paralysis.
Expresses his opinion that the Board should allow the school hall to be used as a reading room in the evenings by the villagers of Down.