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JDH acknowledges receipt of a document from the Royal Bavarian Academy [of Sciences and Humanities] congratulating him on his 90th birthday. He addresses his thanks for the flattering & aesthetically lovely document to the President of the Society: Karl Theodore von Heigel.
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JDH thanks Otto Stapf for the greetings the latter conveyed on behalf of all the RBG Kew herbarium staff on the occasion of JDH's 90th birthday. He looks back on his time working in the herbarium and library of Kew as 'the happiest of my scientific life' and places great value on the work done by all the dedicated employees, without whom he could not have completed his own labours. He asks that his thanks be past to the staff along with the sentiment that JDH believes in ' he enduring scientific value & the renown of the unique establishment entrusted to their care'.
William's lodgings at Saltburn; Hardwicke & Blaber and legal proceedings relating to Dr Scott; surface temperature of Mars; has written to Prof Barrett of Dublin.
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Sending a cutting from the Daily News 16/707. Can Poulton get pupils and friends at Oxford who are acquainted with continental opinion to reply to the author of the cutting? Gossip about Birch's travels. Darwinism in America. W. H. Towers on evolution.
Glad that Poulton's new book on Evolution is nearly completed. Hopes it will do something to expose the fallacies of the "mutationists" and the "mendelians." Lock's book on Variation, Heredity and Evolution. Criticisms of theory of mutation, and comments on mendelism. More about Fred Birch.
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