Asks permission to make a résumé of Insectivorous plants for Société Botanique de Lyon.
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Asks permission to make a résumé of Insectivorous plants for Société Botanique de Lyon.
Asks CD to sign papers for Royal Society candidacy of W. B. Clarke.
E. R. Lankester is in danger of being black-balled for admission to the Linnean Society; Thiselton-Dyer is in the midst of the fight.
CD’s letter from Tiflis is not in Russian but Georgian.
Sends Linnean papers.
Sends thanks for CD’s help in making him a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Dyer has sent some Erinem.
S. C. Malan, Rector of Broadwindsor, could translate Georgian letter from Tiflis.
Asks for CD to add his name to James Croll’s application to the Royal Society of London.
He will repeat his experiments on the cat’s sense of smell.
The intelligence of rats is shown by their gnawing through lead pipes to find water.
Reports on various observations and experiments: a duck–fowl hybrid with queer habits,
three cases of man–dog hybrids,
his interarching vine experiments,
and orange scale.
Copies remaining in stock of Climbing plants [2d ed.], 105,
and Origin [6th ed.], 100.
CD should send the printer any corrections he wants made before reprinting.
Asks CD whether it is worth sending money to prop up the Index.
Is delighted CD plans to call on him.
Wants to discuss botanical work.
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.
Outlines in simple form the statistical distribution of inherited characteristics in a theory of "organic units".
Notifies CD that information he [GGS] gave before on colours of peacock’s feathers was wrong [see 5891 et seq.] and refers CD to H. C. Sorby, who has worked on the subject.
Sends CD an address [missing] on Lucretius and St Paul.
Sends list of misprints in first edition of Insectivorous plants for the German collected works.
Lord Derby was pleased by CD’s warm and genuine expression of approval [of his support of Vivisection Bill? see 9933].
"Sambaquis", or shell mounds accumulated by former inhabitants of the coast, contain shells of some animals that FM has never seen living.
Ants that live on imbauba trees (Cecropia) are attracted by small bodies at base of each petiole.