CD does not feel a subscription could be got up to aid correspondent. Sends a cheque for £10.
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CD does not feel a subscription could be got up to aid correspondent. Sends a cheque for £10.
‘The pigs-foot has been dispatched to day per Rail.’
Some years ago he would have been delighted to take up the Cirripedia collected on the Challenger expedition, but feels that the subject has largely passed out of his mind.
Pigeons’ skins dispatched today.
Sends MS about pigeons.
Thanks GK for the seeds of the Melastomaceae
and skins of the pigeons,
and forwards a note to Dr Scully.
Is printing a book on dimorphic plants [Forms of flowers] in which he will make considerable use of FM’s work.
"I have always been inclined to think that sparrows were acute & crafty birds, but you certainly show that they are Fools, & if they go on behaving in so idiotic a manner, you will do quite right to expose their conduct in some public Journal!--"
Requests observations on sensitive Mimosa and movements of plants in rain.
Worm-castings.
Received Moritz Wagner’s essays [Das Ausland (May 1875)] and sent him a long letter [10643] disagreeing with his views because they do not explain adaptation.
Thanks for Büchner’s essay [Die Darwin’sche Theorie, 4th ed. (1876)].
Stripes on animals curious subject for investigation. Not likely to take it up again.
Recommends cutting plant stems under water.
Will be delighted to see WHF on 26th.
Thanks him for the 9th Report [on the noxious, beneficial, and other insects of the State of Missouri]. "What a pretty illustration of a sub-rudimentary organ is that of the saw-fly!"
CD is gratified that GCR thinks "Sketch of an infant" [Collected papers 2: 191–200] worth publishing. Returns corrected proofs. Assures GCR he took pains to observe carefully.
Acknowledges election to the Society.
Thanks him for book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].
Comments on dispute over spontaneous generation.
The Council [of the Royal Society] will not print Frank Darwin’s paper on Dipsacus [in Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond.].
Mentions GJR’s grafting experiments
and his investigation of spiritualism.
Sends a contribution [£10] to CHD’s fundraising.
CD has again become interested in "bloom" on plants; requests JDH’s help with seeds and plants.
Discusses Francis Darwin’s paper on teasel [Dipsacus].
Comments on GJR’s investigation of spiritualism.
Comments on book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].
Invites him to visit
Perhaps has not laid stress enough on the constitutional differences between males and females.