Has forwarded some plants of Nitella opaca. Has observed their struggle for existence for several years in the gravel-pit pools at Mitcham.
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Has forwarded some plants of Nitella opaca. Has observed their struggle for existence for several years in the gravel-pit pools at Mitcham.
Is trying to get some cobra poison for CD.
Reminds CD of three cards JLA sent in February for CD to sign and date and write his good wishes on.
Very anxious that WTVD’s essay [on Syrian street dogs, see 13710] should be published. Has sent it to Zoological Society with a few introductory remarks [see 13753].
Sends signature.
Solicits CD’s subscription to the Rolleston Memorial Fund, which will be used for a post-graduate prize at Oxford and Cambridge.
Sends his birth date.
Cannot contribute article to new journal [Field Naturalist and Scientific Student]. Writes only to communicate new facts.
Thanks CD for contribution to Rolleston Fund
and for congratulations on his Professorship at Oxford.
Sends fact about earthworms.
A friend once "caught" an oyster while fishing, which confirms CD’s note ["On the dispersal of freshwater bivalves", Collected papers 2: 276–8].
Sends more Trifolium resupinatum.
In France as in England there is indignation at the insults Decaisne suffered in the last years of his life.
Charles Martins has lost his Professorship at Montpellier.