Discusses revisions for Variation, 2d ed.
Discusses experiments involving graft-hybrids.
Alludes to Pangenesis.
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Discusses revisions for Variation, 2d ed.
Discusses experiments involving graft-hybrids.
Alludes to Pangenesis.
Comments on GJR’s experiments.
Will propose GJR for membership in Linnean Society.
Discusses GJR’s grafting experiments.
CD is circulating certificate proposing GJR for membership in Linnean Society.
Discusses hybrid potatoes from Germany.
Mentions his appearance before Vivisection Commission.
Discusses his plans for planting and observing the carrots sent by GJR.
Mentions views of J. S. Burdon Sanderson on graft-hybrids.
Comments on GJR’s paper ["Instinct and acquisition", Nature 12 (1875): 553–4].
[Letter incorrectly dated "Thursday 8th" by CD.] [!? shd be note not synopsis]
Carrots have arrived; CD has potted them.
Suggests skin-grafting experiment on birds.
Discusses case of Edwin Ray Lankester; it has aroused his indignation.
Sends books.
Discusses GJR’s Pangenesis experiments; views of Galton on the theory.
Describes accounts of potato grafting in a German journal.
Is sending plants from cut-leaved vine.
Invites GJR to visit.
"When in presence of my ladies do not talk about experiments on animals."
Describes experiments designed to produce graft-hybrid. Has achieved adhesion in great majority of experiments. Too early to tell what ultimate success will be.
Looks forward to reading CD’s statements about reflex action in Insectivorous plants.
Has prepared paper ["Physiology of the nervous system of Medusae", Rep. BAAS (1876): 158–63] in which he insists on occurrence of reflex action in absence of nerves. Would like to cite CD’s authority for occurrence of reflex action in plants.
Sends specimens of grafted potatoes. Describes grafting experiments designed to prove possibility of graft-hybrids, and thus, Pangenesis.
Sends successful graft-hybrid of red and white carrot.
CD should correct passage in Variation explaining deformation of sternum in fowls [Variation, 2d ed., 1: 287–8].
Chapter in Variation on Pangenesis is admirable.
Asks to borrow Ernst Haeckel’s Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Hydromedusen (1865) [and Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Siphonophoren (1869)].
Has not been neglecting Pangenesis for Medusae.
Would like to see papers [on potato grafting] mentioned by CD.
CD has doubtless seen case in Gardeners’ Chronicle of vine in which scion has affected the stock [P. Grieve, "Singular sport upon a grape vine", Gard. Chron. (1875): 21].
Returns papers [unidentified].
One on inheritance destitute of meaning. How can "force" act without any material on which to act? Discussion must assume truth of some such theory as Pangenesis.