Orders International scientific directory.
Orders International scientific directory.
Writes about WED’s purchasing a house.
CD’s division of his surplus income; fire engines; Sara Darwin’s relatives; GHD’s paper in Nature.
Birthday congratulations from the Naples Zoological Station. A new physiological department will be constructed. Describes work in progress at the Station.
Sends his paper on teleosteans.
Heard R. Owen read a paper at York [meeting of BAAS]. Owen had views similar to AD’s, but seemed not to be aware of work of others.
Will not support Raphael Meldola’s application to the Royal Society.
Asks correspondent to sign certificate for Raphael Meldola [as a candidate for Royal Society].
Discusses function of bud-scales.
Slab with annelid tracks being sent. Memorandum enclosed describing bed from which it came.
Sends four parts of Van Tieghem, and recommends Wiesner 1881.
Forgot to suggest that JL repeat experiments with bees and artifical flowers.
Seven German students drink to CD’s health on his 75th [sic] birthday.
Writes regarding the form which the proposed Science Defence Association should take and encloses a draft of proposed resolutions.
Asks JT to support Albert Dicey for the Athenaeum.
Asks WBC for his vote and influence in favour of Albert Dicey at the Athenaeum balloting.
CD feels "as old as Methusalem".
Thanks for the birthday greetings.
"I feel a very old man and my course is nearly run."
Birthday congratulations.
Describes his use of alcohol and tobacco.
Thanks for AD’s letter.
Owen has published a paper on the brain in relation to the mouth ["On the homology of the conario-hypophysial tract", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 16 (1881–2): 131–49]. CD cannot avoid suspicion that the original idea was borrowed from AD.
F. M. Balfour very ill. His death would be a great loss.
Agrees with TLB’s views regarding the constitution of the proposed Science Defence Association.
Asks for autographs.
Happy to vote for Albert Venn Dicey’s membership of the Athenaeum Club.