A difficulty with a passage in Coral reefs about "vertical thickness", which JVC thinks should read "horizontal extent".
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A difficulty with a passage in Coral reefs about "vertical thickness", which JVC thinks should read "horizontal extent".
Discusses chemical tests for the detection of glucose and cane-sugar in solution.
RLT’s two articles in Spectator [4 Mar and 25 Mar 1876] greatly honour CD.
Tait has made a good point about "Survival of the Fittest".
Dr Rudinger’s extensive inquiries show that all eminent German surgeons are unanimous about non-growth of extra digit after amputation.
J. Kollmann has written regretting CD has given up atavism and extra digits [in 2d ed. of Variation]; gives new evidence of a rudimentary sixth digit in batrachians.
Cat born tailless as a consequence of a spina bifida.
NL has written an essay Toldot adam (Lewy 1874, privately printed in book form as Lewy [1875]) to convince his people of the truth of CD’s theory.
Regrowth of amputated digits is a capacity possessed by the new-born but rapidly lost.
Encloses letter printed in the Toronto Globe about the discovery on Prince Edward Island of a skeleton of a tailed man.
Has had doctoral student [Alexander Fraustadt] working on the physiology and chemistry (i.e., chlorophyll and starch distribution) and comparative anatomy of Dionaea.
Thanks for response to query on what is an individual.
Sends paper on potatoes [see 10440].
A Dr Sarazin offers services as translator.
Will read CD’s letter about Robert Swinhoe to Royal Society Council and see what can be done for him.
Encloses Pinguicula specimens.
Believes she has found a new species of water-lily.
Thanks for essay [Cras credemus: a treatise on the cultivation of the potato from the seed, having for proposed results the extinction of the disease (1876)] and seeds. Thinks principle on which JT is acting is right.
Cannot allow publication of his earlier letter [10368], as he cannot recall what he wrote.
Requests CD’s evaluation of the work of the entomologist Robert McLachlan, who is up for F.R.S. in competition with the physiologist A. H. Garrod.
McLachlan has as strong a claim to be F.R.S. as any entomologist, but Garrod’s work is of higher quality.
Lists the 14 men elected to be F.R.S. Garrod defeated McLachlan.
Thanks HB for obtaining a translation by a learned rabbi of [the Naphtali Lewy] letter – "a real curiosity". [See 10430.]
JT still thinks CD’s opinions on "what is an individual?" should be published.
Seeking financial backing for his research.
Gives advice on breeding of blight-resistant potatoes.
Queries about some references in Coral reefs and a list of misprints.
F. S. Holmes is welcome to examine his fish vertebrae.