Mourns death of Lyell. Wonders whether enough men of science were attached to him to raise a fitting testimonial.
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Mourns death of Lyell. Wonders whether enough men of science were attached to him to raise a fitting testimonial.
Has come to Abinger Hall for a rest after Insectivorous plants, soon to appear. Is sick of the accursed subject.
Rejoices at [Thiselton-Dyer’s] appointment.
Solicits JDH and others at Kew for signatures to nomination of Francis Darwin for membership of Linnean Society.
Shares Hooker’s feelings about Douglas Galton and Lord Henry Lennox.
Bored with preparing new editions.
R. L. Tait has requested CD send his [Tait’s] paper on Nepenthes to Royal Society. CD considers this a nuisance.
Certificate for G. J. Romanes.
Francis’ experiments on mechanism of twisted seeds.
Has decided to send R. L. Tait’s paper to the Royal Society.
Will try glycerine on Mimosa but doubts it will have an effect.
Describes observations by his son Horace on the extreme sensitivity of twisted seeds to moisture.
Comments on R. L. Tait’s claimed isolation of digestive ferments from Nepenthes.
CD is furious at the prospect of Lankester’s being black-balled by the Linnean Society. He plans to solicit support from various members and to come up with Frank for the voting.
Has not heard from Mivart; CD is convinced he is a hypocrite.
Is not inclined to restrain himself from expressing his opinion of Mivart. Huxley’s article in Academy.
JDH would be rash not to follow advice of his friends. [CD’s] wife and George oppose his writing to Mivart.
Hopes JDH will beat Sir Douglas Galton.
Continues to work on insectivorous plants.
Astonished at JDH’s success versus Galton
and his attack on Murray is superb. Has written a formal letter to Mivart enumerating his offences.
Is provoked by trouble he is having writing Insectivorous plants.
Curious case of an unknown form of Glaucium in earth covered with slag for 1400 years.
CD on his memory of Lyell. Deeply rejoices that he is to be buried in Westminster Abbey.
Has at last finished Insectivorous plants
and is rewriting Climbing plants.
W. W. Ouless has finished his picture of CD for Academy.
CD and others now think it advisable to go further than a petition on vivisection, and a bill has been drafted.
F. Delpino’s pamphlet on pitchers ["Sulle pianti a bicchieri", Nuovo G. Bot. Ital. 3 (1871): 174–6].