Asks whether blue eyes are peculiar to the human species.
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Asks whether blue eyes are peculiar to the human species.
Swedish anti-vivisectionists are claiming CD is opposed to animal experiments; Holmgren wishes CD to state his position.
Sends GdeS and A. F. Marion, L’évolution du règne végétal. Les cryptogames [1881].
Murray’s will be happy to publish [Earthworms] on usual terms of two-thirds profits.
Sends his last report on Russian wheat varieties [Gard. Chron. n.s. 15 (1881): 430–2].
Considers which part of grass embryo is the cotyledon.
Sends pamphlet showing that magnetism is the fundamental element by which all is created and maintained.
Is mapping coral distribution on the Tortugas reef. His observations on the Florida peninsula suggest that it was built up from the debris of animal remains and was not elevated.
Looks forward to reading CD’s Earthworms.
Agrees that habits of sand-wasp are determined by natural selection.
Experiment of exposing plants to flashing light gives uncertain result.
Announces CD’s election as an Honorary Corresponding Member of the Club.
Sends "Ginger Beer Plant", a seed that assists the fermentation of ginger beer. [Also enclosed are instructions for making ginger beer dated, presumably erroneously, 18 Oct 1881.]
On vivisection. Has read CD’s letter to Frithiof Holmgren and answers the points raised in it.
Requests that CD lecture on evolution in Lichfield.
Discusses vivisection and contradicts CD’s defence of English physiologists.
Asks if he may publish CD’s reply to his previous letter.
Only more sensitive seedlings respond to flashing light.
CD’s letter to Times ["On vivisection", 22 Apr 1881] in every way admirable.
GJR to be Zoological Secretary of Linnean Society.
Has decided on arrangement of material for his books Animal intelligence [1882]
and Mental evolution in animals [1883].
Gives case of the inheritance of a tendency to turn grey at a particular age,
and, from his own family, details of the inheritance of a thumb deformity that apparently originated with his grandfather.
Regrets CD will not allow publication of his letter.
CD is invited to allow his name to be suggested for the vacancy in the Trust of the British Museum caused by the death of Lord Beaconsfield. [See 13142.]
Sends observations of wormcasts at Malvern. Describes stay at Abinger.
A student and an admirer of CD wishes to have a few lines from him.