Sends a copy of a letter from Herbert Blakeway of Illinois, which accompanied a pig’s head with wattles.
Discusses the Castle Martin breed of Bos, the history of which shows parallels with the Himalayan rabbits.
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Sends a copy of a letter from Herbert Blakeway of Illinois, which accompanied a pig’s head with wattles.
Discusses the Castle Martin breed of Bos, the history of which shows parallels with the Himalayan rabbits.
Thanks RAB for kindness. Says W. H. Flower will examine wings [of geese].
Experiments on effects of removing "bloom" from leaves and fruit.
Thanks for plants and seeds; requests for more to test Sachs’s notion on "bloom".
Sachs jumps to the conclusion twiners and tendrils are similar from the Menispermum that twined without a stick. Akebia grows down a stick; not only the free end is involved.
Sleeping plants.
Is pleased FD’s climbing work goes well.
Thanks him for information on heliotropism.
Discusses sleep movements
and his observations on the sensitivity of radicle tips.
Encloses letters from Blair on inheritance of injured wing in geese. Says specimens have been sent.
Mentions case of pigeon born without eyes.
Observations on dimorphic and trimorphic plants of Scotland.
On fertilisation of Scrophularia nodosa.
CD’s election to the French Academy delights GB. Nationalistic prejudices have at last been overcome; congratulates him on what is now universal adoption of his views.
Arranges for HdeV to call.
Regrets that LAE went to Down for nothing.
Agrees to read manuscript if short.
Regrets he cannot receive HdeV at Down, because he has just left home.
Responds to ASW’s information about Erythraea
and about wasps on Scrophularia.
Invites CD and Mrs Darwin to stay at his home if they plan to attend the International Congress of Anthropological Sciences, 16–21 August, and the seventh session of the French Association for the Advancement of Science, 22–9 August.
Congratulations on election to the French Academy of Sciences, Botany Section.
GB’s note has given him more pleasure than his election to the French Academy.
Congratulations on CD’s long-overdue election to the French Academy of Sciences.
CD’s election to Botany Section of French Academy amuses him, because he "doesn’t know the characters of a single natural order!".
Regrets not seeing CD.
Congratulates CD on election to French Academy.