Comments on R. L. Tait’s claimed isolation of digestive ferments from Nepenthes.
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Comments on R. L. Tait’s claimed isolation of digestive ferments from Nepenthes.
Comments on AW’s essay [on "Axolotl", Z. Wiss. Zool. 25 (suppl.) (1875): 297–342] with respect to evolutionary reversion. Peloric flowers must also be considered reversion.
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.
Strongly disapproves of the blackballing of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society. States the reasons for his disapproval and hopes they will be considered.
Ferdinand Cohn has already sent a copy of his article, [possibly: "Über die Function der Blasen von Aldrovanda und Utricularia", Beitr. Biol. Pflanz. 1 (1870–5) pt 3: 71–89].
Arranges to visit AWB.
Declines invitation to breakfast.
Discusses payment of £10 owed by Italians.
"No corrections for Voyage of Beagle [Journal of researches]."
CD is curious about the feathers but will wait to see whether H. C. Sorby’s paper appears.
Thanks for 5th volume of the West Riding Asylum Medical Reports.
E. R. Lankester has been unfairly blackballed at the Linnean Society. He is to be proposed for a second time, with CD seconding the proposal. Urges ARW to attend the ballot.
Abstract sent to the Royal Society. It seems to CD "uncommonly clear and well-done".