Has offered Leopold Würtenberger money to aid in his work.
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Has offered Leopold Würtenberger money to aid in his work.
Movements in Oxalis.
F. Galton and others suggest that he go in for Fellowship [of Royal Society]. Asks that CD propose him. If he is unable to do so HWB will not be hurt to wait another year.
Oxalis seeds incorrectly named. H. N. Moseley says pigeons in Malaya eject seeds fit for germination.
It will give CD real pleasure to propose HWB for F.R.S. Asks that he send him the necessary information for the certificate as well as a list of men he would like to sign it. He should not be disappointed if not elected first time. [Bates elected F.R.S. 2 June 1881.]
Thanks for CD’s interest in his paper on plant movements ["Über die Ursachen der periodischer Bewegungen der Blumen und Laubblätter", Flora 56 (1873): 433–41, 449–55]. AFB concentrated on clear cases, though he knows there are others.
Experiments on function of movement: Mimosa leaves, held so they cannot move, die.
Thanks CD for gift to support his research.
Comments on EM’s work in Dolomites [Die Dolomit-Riffe von Südtirol (1879)]. Had wondered whether ancient corals formed reefs.
Obliged for EM’s photograph. Sends his own.
Declines to sign petition concerning Professorship of Pathology at Cambridge.
Encloses Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, with account of a fungus that exhales chlorine;
relates his discovery in 1852 of a flowering plant that had "perfectly formed beetles" in the place of anthers.
Birthday wishes.
Statement of U.S. sales of CD’s works.
Cites evolutionary passages by Alexander Braun in English edition of Braun’s Verjüngung [1853].
Heliotropic movements. Is giving up experiments until the spring.
Comments on HNM’s book [Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger" (1879)].
A stonemason who has read Origin and Descent and defends CD’s theory against theological prejudice, would like to read CD’s other books but is too poor to afford them.
Sends regards from Capt. Charles Owen, who had collected beetles for CD.
Owen’s son is going to Oregon with Wallis Nash.
Has arranged for publication of his translation of Weismann.
S. H. Scudder article on sexual dimorphism in butterflies [Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 12 (1877): 150–8].
Wishes to subscribe to RM’s translation of Weismann.
Has seen Scudder’s article.
A. R. Wallace’s article ["Animals and their native countries", Nineteenth Century 5 (1879): 247–59] is excellent.
£100 has arrived and LW will set to work.