Thanks JT for his information. Sends £50 to the W. K. Clifford memorial fund.
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The Charles Darwin Collection
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Thanks JT for his information. Sends £50 to the W. K. Clifford memorial fund.
Thanks for having sent prehistoric remains.
"I do not know whether the enclosed will be of any use to you.– I can say nothing of your fitness for the desired office, as I know nothing whatever of its duties.
I am sincerely sorry to hear of Mr F. Smith’s death."
Read GA’s book [The colour-sense] with "great interest". Makes criticisms and suggestions.
Cannot believe in GA’s theory of the origin of pleasure and pain.
Is glad he defends sexual selection;
CD finds A. R. Wallace’s explanations "mere empty words" and for many years he has "quite doubted [ARW’s] scientific judgment".
Considers the possible effect of environmental colour on the colour tastes of animals.
Sends short testimonial [missing] for RBS, but doubts its value as he has has already given one for the same office [to A. G. Butler, see 11888].
Letter of recommendation for Richard Bowdler Sharpe, ornithologist.
Wants to borrow Duchartre’s Éléments de botanique [1867].
Circular about the distribution of the overplus of his income and advice on investment.
Is increasing FD’s allowance.
Has begun his chapter on sleep of plants [for Movement in plants].
Discusses the value of a vegetable diet.
Thanks for book [Duchartre, Éléments de botanique].
CAL’s letter [see 11885] would not be printed by the Geological Society as it is too speculative and has no new information.
Encloses his photograph.
Thanks for sending him work on the skull.
Details of publications by G. H. Darwin.
Has already written a testimonial for [?William Ramsay] McNab as Professor of Botany. Hence what he can write for EPW will not be of much use.
CD has read several papers by E. Perceval Wright and has a high opinion of his abilities and great zeal for natural science.
Has signed a paper [unspecified];
thanks HW for his interesting letter and kind expressions about himself and his son.