Asks him to visit.
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Asks him to visit.
Can HdV supply a reference to a paper describing a stem or a root divided longitudinally and the separate parts acted on by geotropism.
Thanks for HdeV’s letter, which is a great relief to him.
Sends his subscription for the adopted Fuegian [James FitzRoy Button].
Feels very old and wishes he could be idle but finds himself miserable without any daily work.
Is reading Lyell’s biography [K. M. Lyell (1881)].
"I should be a strange creature if I did not feel real pleasure in seeing you." Recalls GWN’s kindness and assistance over forty years.
Is delighted with JP’s article on vivisection ["Vivisection: its pains and its uses, No. 1", Nineteenth Century 10 (1881): 920–30]. CD is "boiling over with indignation on the subject".
Thanks FGMP for his sympathetic and very kind letter.
Case of Roman roads would have been worth investigating for Earthworms. [See 13531.]
Discusses subscription for Grant Allen. Suggests present of microscope.
Thanks JVC for his corrections of "stupid errata" [in Earthworms]. Explains, in answer to JVC’s query, that he has used the word "humus" as the equivalent of vegetable mould.
DJW’s facts are new and curious. CD has other reasons to believe he was wrong in doubting the effect on earthworms of beating the ground.
CD is glad birth [of Erasmus Darwin] is over and that Ida has borne it so well.
PG’s article in Encyclopaedia Britannica wonderfully well done ["Insectivorous plants", 9th ed., 13: 134–40].
Admires PG’s researches on chlorophyll in animal kingdom ["Observations on the physiology and histology of Convoluta Schultzii", Proc. Roy. Soc. Lon. 28 (1878–9): 449–57].
Declines to provide testimonial for J. C. Ewart, since he has already done so for Lankester. Was also asked by W. C. M’Intosh.
Andrew Clark finds that CD’s heart is perfectly right.
Testimonial letter stating his belief in JG’s suitability for the Chair of Geology at Edinburgh.
Explains he was not a member of the congress [7th International Medical Conference, August 1881], and hence it would be inappropriate to introduce his likeness into the correspondent’s composition.
Asks him to visit.
Feels he should decline nominal presidency of the proposed Science Defence Association.
Can FG call on Monday evening?