Forwards a letter [missing] from her cousin relating to Dr Erasmus Darwin.
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Forwards a letter [missing] from her cousin relating to Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Thanks CD for the engraving, which has arrived.
In response to CD’s query, discusses sleep movements of plants. Recommends papers on subject.
Oliver says Oxalis colorata is O. floribunda.
Regrets he has not given Zoonomia the attention it deserves. Informs CD that Erasmus Darwin may have anticipated a discovery about paralysis of vessels by exposure to heat [see Erasmus Darwin, p. 109].
There is a hyacinth growing upside down in Hankinson’s garden. Sends picture of it. Leslie Stephen knows of no worthwhile sources of information on Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Will see CD in Worthing next week.
Has had an account of his experiments published. Sends CD some specimens of seedlings and tubers.
Describes one of his varieties of potato in its third and fourth years. [CD notes his observations on this variety grown at Down, July 1879.]
Encloses some references [missing] to information on Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Is struck by the amazing variations of the hardy Primula varieties.
Sends first part of MS of Erasmus Darwin.
Has found useful criticism of Anna Seward in J. G. Lockhart’s Life of Sir Walter Scott.
CD should regard MS as a draft and correct anything that seems incorrect or questionable. Asks biographical questions about Dr Darwin. Can CD give information about origin of family name?
Sends CD an article on Dr Erasmus Darwin [from Monthly Magazine, see 12028].
Tells of a "discovery" he has made about taking observations of the sun. Does not know yet whether it is new.
Invitation to the University College Hospital festival and dinner
Has been trying unsuccessfully to weigh something for CD.
Has received the enlarged MS for Erasmus Darwin from E. Krause.
Will wait for CD’s preliminary essay before proceeding with German edition [of Erasmus Darwin]. Regards CD’s essay as the principal attraction. Would like to finish German edition by end of July.
Has difficulty with E. Krause’s orthography and quotations.
Asks CD to lend him Anna Seward’s biography [Memoirs of the life of Dr Darwin (1804)].
Compatibility of evolution and theism.
CD awarded the Baly Medal of the Royal College of Physicians.