Acknowledges his election to the Akademie.
Acknowledges his election to the Akademie.
Would be obliged for correction of references in Variation [1st ed.].
Response to Insectivorous plants. Surprised that CD did not discuss origin of the contrivances. Critics will interpret them as inexplicable by theory of natural selection.
Insectivorous plants: observations on the digestive fluid of Nepenthes.
Reproduction of plant by "parthenogenesis".
CD sends words that he is too busy to work on the Drosera RLT has sent. CD also regrets that the fluid on virgin pitchers of Nepenthes was not tested with white of egg. Until that is done, he doubts whether physiologists would admit the presence of the ferment.
Glad to hear that ARW is so busy.
CD believes that he has thrown some light on the acquirement of the power of digestion in Droseraceae [in Insectivorous plants].
Encloses corrections and notes on Variation [1st ed.].
Comments on LJ’s Observations [in natural history (1846)].
Discusses variation among British birds, and the conflicting treatment of bird species by C. W. L. Gloger and C. L. Brehm.
Describes collecting incident of his student days involving Carabus.
Mentions squirrels eating insects.
Astonished to hear of terrestrial Planaria.
Comments on BAAS meeting in Southampton.
Thiselton-Dyer has asked on CD’s behalf for results of experiments at Rothamsted on herbage of permanent meadow land. Sends report and tables of botanical analysis.
Solicits JDH and others at Kew for signatures to nomination of Francis Darwin for membership of Linnean Society.
Has received a confusing set of engravings, with both missing and superfluous illustrations [for Polish translation of Descent].
Recounts the removal and regrowth of her son’s extra digit; her grandfather showed the same condition.
No new experiments on mutually sterile maize varieties since his paper in Botanische Zeitung in 1868.
His appreciation of Insectivorous plants, especially Utricularia section.
Has previously quoted details concerning the regrowth of her amputated extra digit in Variation [2: 14–15]. The case has since been disputed, so CD, who is revising his work, asks for some fuller details.
Gives extracts from her father’s diary concerning the amputation and regrowth of her sister’s extra finger.
Asks HAH to keep Francis Darwin’s nomination paper [for Linnean Society] for Huxley to sign on return. FD appends personal note.
Apologises that he cannot supply any maize seed.
Has received but not yet read Insectivorous plants.
Poverty keeps him at Shrewsbury.
The Canary scheme still goes, CD is studying Spanish and geology.
Jenyns has started CD on Diptera.