Requests hydrated magnesia.
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Requests hydrated magnesia.
Suggests a reference to Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1 Dec 1873, p. 497, when THF takes up Coronilla.
Is interested in comparative nutritive values of chondrin and gelatin. The former seems to excite Drosera more, though albumen does so to a higher degree than either. Also asks if chlorophyll is digested by animals; Drosera digests it hardly at all.
Thanks RF for his kind note; cannot quite believe or disbelieve stories of children raised by wolves.
Wishes to identify a species of Cassia whose movements interest him.
Sorry to hear of Dohrn’s troubles. Has written to prospective donors saying that nothing can be done because of attitude of Dohrn’s father.
New [2d] edition of Descent is an awful job.
Diet no longer doing much for his health.
The case of the bees interests CD. He does not doubt that because of the size of their jaws humble-bees will be found all over the world to be the biters and hive-bees to profit from their work.
Thinks he has heard of land shells descending in the manner described by RS.
Obliged for letter about horns of sheep.
Mentions case of death from objects impacted in appendix.
Is aware of his error about snipe breeding.
Thanks FdeC for his note and invites criticisms.
Formal note enclosing five guineas for William Pengelly testimonial fund.
Suggests that his Coral reefs be republished.
Discusses speech of parrots and starling. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 85 n.]
Expresses his opinion that the Board should allow the school hall to be used as a reading room in the evenings by the villagers of Down.
Thanks for copy of translation of Variation
and the "admirable work on the microscopical structure of rock" [C. G. Ehrenberg, Mikrogeologische Studien (1873)].
His indignation at the malignant, odious, hypocrite Owen’s attack on JDH. History of Secretaryship [of Royal Society in Nature 9 (1873): 129–30] was best answer to Owen.
Is hard at work on new edition of Descent – a truly awful job.
No use going on with experiments on effects of water on bloom-divested leaves. May have erred. Or it may be that water is only injurious when there is a good supply of actinic rays. Will wait until spring.
Concerning secretion of "bloom";
movements of Robinia.
Thanks CGE for gift of his latest work [Mikrogeologische Studien (1873)].
Will do what he can to help JC-B with his work on expression of patients suffering from general paralysis.