LD has misplaced some figures on which he was to work.
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LD has misplaced some figures on which he was to work.
Answers questions about chemistry (see 9202).
Sends references on Utricularia and Pinguicula.
Asks for proportion of water and of nitrogen in various ammonium salts.
[WWA’s replies are with the letter.]
Reports that Pinguicula is found in north of Scotland. Gives local names and uses. None of his patients, who are from all parts of Scotland, has heard of the use of Pinguicula to curdle milk.
Thanks CD for his answer to his letter. It has not convinced him – he still sees no reason to believe in the prophylactic effect of the vaccine.
Sends an article he has written answering Émile Blanchard of the Academy. Naturalists in France who occupy official positions are not independent.
Sends information on nitrogen and albuminoid content of seeds of Brassica.
Sends her observations on Dionaea capturing insects. [See Insectivorous plants, pp. 311–12.]
Asks what proportion of leaves of Pinguicula have insects adhering to them. Also, whether seeds of any plants ever adhere to the leaves, and in what situations does P. vulgaris grow.
Comments on GHD’s paper ["Marriages between first cousins in England and their effects", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 18 (1875): 22–41]. Hopes it will be published and read at the Statistical Society.
Charles Martins has given the first Darwinian lectures on zoology at Montpellier.
Joseph Duval-Jouve is also a Darwinian. The latter has lost his position as Inspector of the Academy because of his liberal views.
Wallace suggests that a trap-door spider with an exposed nest preys on nocturnal insects.
Did not know Duval-Jouve was an evolutionist.
Delighted at JTM’s success with spiders.
On JTM’s experiments with acids on seeds.
AG’s article in Nature was "just and moderate".
Sends his review of C. Hodge’s What is Darwinism? (1874) [Nation 18 (1874): 348–51].
It is uphill work making a theist out of CD.
Gives further observations on Sarracenia variolaris.
In doubt about size of printing of the 2d edition of Descent. Profit on 2000 at 12s would be only £250.
Wants information from CD for a revision of the supplement of his work on timber trees and other industrial plants [Proc. Zool. & Acclim. Soc. Victoria 3 (1874): 47–95].
Reports the ruin of his department thanks to two papers by Edward Wilson, McKinnon, and Sparrow.
Sends CD some cobra poison for his experiments.
Encloses a report on current status of the appeal for Naples Zoological Station.
Shark embryology.
The lack of a hereditary effect of circumcision among Jews argues against CD’s views.
Writes of his article in Nature. Corrects some errors that have appeared in the published version.
Sends cartilage from cat’s ear, the elastic fibres of which will probably resist digestion [by Drosera]. Is preparing fibro-cartilage, which he expects will be digested easily. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 104.]