Will GHD ask Lord R[ayleigh] whether "gas-men in testing light, exclude the diffused light".
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Will GHD ask Lord R[ayleigh] whether "gas-men in testing light, exclude the diffused light".
Sends a likeness [missing] of a monstrous woman who may be considered as "Darwin’s lost link".
Is obliged to GHD for arranging everything.
Sorry about the proof-sheets.
Asks for two property valuations. Is afraid he has made a mistake in CD’s property settlements.
Discusses division of Trust. Is concerned Bessy’s portion will be smaller than Henrietta's. Had a pleasant visit in Cambridge. There is a clerical error in the division of CD’s property.
There is ‘some gradation in perfection with mammals in the mammery glands’. Discusses milk secretion in Echidna. Instances a fish in which the ova hatch in a sack on the male and the young feed on mucus secreted by the sack lining; ‘here … we see what might be the commencement of a simple mammery gland’.
Sends copy of his Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen [1881]. Disagrees with CD about plant movement.
Regarding CD’s paper ["Inheritance", Nature 24 (1881): 257; he comments on absence of black sheep at his father’s sheep station.
Notes that the repeated brandings of sheep produce no inherited effect, and a woman’s withered leg was not inherited by her children.
Will send copies [of Earthworms] shortly. Troubled by rumour of a mysterious copy in hands of a reviewer.
Thanks JW for book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Discusses movement in plants.
Glad book [Earthworms] will soon be published.
G. J. Romanes has copy and often writes reviews for Nature. Probably did not know it was incorrect to publish it prematurely.
WG is a candidate for a new chair at University College, Liverpool. Asks CD’s permission to use extracts from his letter [13230] for a testimonial.
Has resolved never to write for periodicals.
Murray has sold 1200 copies [of Earthworms], so another printing of 500 is proposed. Has CD any corrections to send?
Thanks for presentation copy of Earthworms.
Describes a worm from Ceylon.
Asks whether he and W. M. Ord may call on CD.
Invites JSB and W. M. Ord to Down, and gives instructions for getting there.
Will perhaps have to print off 1000 extra copies [of Earthworms]. Electros of the woodcuts are ready for the German edition.
On proposed sale of property to CD by Sydney Sales. [The site of the Down House hard tennis court.]
Encloses a cheque for £11.5.0 for subscriptions from CD and members of his family.