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Searching for the right gardener.
Sends postal order for Samuel Scudder’s Catalogue [of scientific serials (1879)].
Discusses CGS’s account of Pellew Islands. Still believes atolls and barrier reefs in Pacific indicate subsidence. But cases like Pellew Islands, if frequent, would make his conclusions of little value.
CD invites MGR and his wife to lunch. Travel directions. Regrets that he will be unable to converse for more than an hour and a half. [See 12246.]
Gratified to know that WPG’s father, William Lloyd Garrison, approved of CD’s words on slavery in Journal of researches.
Will get in touch with young gardener about terms of employment. It is good of Hooker to remember about heliotropism of insectivorous plants.
Thanks AD-P for part three of his Atlas [see 11039].
John Murray could supply clichés of two woodcuts at a trifling cost.
Comments on DM’s ["Drift deposits of west of England", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 35 (1879): 425–55].
Rejoices at THF’s consenting to the marriage of his daughter Ida and Horace Darwin, although the match is a poor one for Ida "in a worldly point of view". [See 12253.]
Sends £2 for the "Buttonian subscription" [see 9229].
DM may show CD’s letter [to the Royal Society].
Pleased that his old paper should have stimulated DM to such excellent work.
Sends his thanks for the beautifully illustrated book for children [What Mr Darwin saw]
and for the memorials of William Lloyd Garrison. [See 12248.]
Wants some seeds to see how certain seedlings break through ground.
Thanks for ESM’s paper [see 12201].
Remarks on progress of Japan.
Thanks CdeC for his work [Anatomie comparée des feuilles (1879)]. The plates are wonderfully good.
Condolences on the death of JL’s wife.
Polydactylism is very common, and so are supernumerary mammae in men and women.
Forwards newspaper reports by growers of Torbitt’s potatoes. Torbitt is in much distress and CD fears all his work will be thrown away unless he is aided.
Is obliged for the note about Wallis Nash’s death, but he has since heard that the report was false.