Thinks CD guilty of mock modesty regarding GJR’s review of Earthworms.
Has been working on echinoderms again with J. C. Ewart.
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Thinks CD guilty of mock modesty regarding GJR’s review of Earthworms.
Has been working on echinoderms again with J. C. Ewart.
Sets out some of his ideas on the effects of disuse on an organ. Disuse as a cause of reduction.
Encloses a copy of a letter from H. Spencer giving his opinion on GJR’s views on disuse and a draft of GJR’s reply to Spencer.
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.