Letter of introduction for Romilly Allen.
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Letter of introduction for Romilly Allen.
Thanks for Earthworms.
Sends further details about the beetle and mussel sent to CD.
The French government plan to set up an international laboratory at Villefranche; JB wonders whether CD would express support for the scheme.
Strongly supports the proposed biological laboratory at Villefranche.
J. Decaisne has died.
Sends a few rare seeds of Trifolium resupinatum.
Has found a frog with bivalve attached to hind leg.
Sends an account of a combat between a frog and a worm.
Sends [for CD’s possible use] his observations on spines of fir used by worms to block burrows.
Sends a dividend cheque.
News about his dividends.
Twelve "Revised Directions" for CD’s treatment, mainly diet.
Sends his measurement of an unusually large worm-casting.
CD invited to [Science Defence Association] meeting at Royal College of Physicians.
Seeking contributions to assist the widow of C. T. Beke.
Much regrets the state of his health will prevent his attending the [Science Defence] Association meeting.
News of Great Western Railway dividend; discussion of Leonard Darwin’s ‘exciting news’.
Thanks CD for an article [unspecified].
CD and other friends who got up fund for GA in 1879 have now bought him a microscope; thanks CD, especially as the idea came from him; plans to take up original observations with it.
Mechanism of flowers of Maranta has already been described by F. H. G. Hildebrand and Federico Delpino.