- Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 95
- Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 95
About Miss Pascoe's address and Pascoe's collections in London.
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About Miss Pascoe's address and Pascoe's collections in London.
Is trying to determine the location of Orchid the Castnia came from. Does not want notices of his own books - overwhelmed with papers.
About Pascoe's collections. About World of Life article in the Fortnightly - comments on a new part of his argument. Comment on Times article on Darwinian Centenary written by Bather.
About Pascoe's collections. Lankester's reply to Times article. Darwinism explaining things Mutationists don't. About Dr. Dixey's candidature to R.S.
Pascoe's papers.
About letter of thanks to Miss Pascoe. Explains what plants his wife gave to Poulton. Progress in his garden.
Thanks for dedication in new book and makes alterations. Details of his recent illness.
Congratulations on Poulton's new book. De Vries' theories. Comments on Darwin's ideas on permanence of oceanic basins. How he felt when he read the Origin of Species.
Doesn't have Fred Birch's current address. ARW has forgotten whether he has written to Professor Baldwin, the author of Organic Evolution.
Thanks Poulton for his new book. ARW's new book -reviews and sales. More about his garden -his mania for alpine plants (especially the genus Primula). Birch's travels. Rothchild's butterfly collections at Tring. ARW has been ill with bowel troubles, eczema and "other incidents in old age". Details of his diet, the fact that his son is now an invalid and the trouble that he is having with servants so his wife and daughter are doing most of the work.
About the drought and Poulton's visit. His alpine garden. Comments on his eczema "which has now developed into acute rheumatic gout in right shoulder and both hands, which renders the complex muscle motions used in dressing and undressing a succession of acute and often very painful twinges. By careful dieting it is getting slowly better.".
Arrangements for Poulton's visit.
On Bergson's ideas and his own.
Working on two small books. One is on environment and morality, the other is on the labour problem.
On a booklet containing an anticipation of Darwinism. Two of ARW's books have been translated into Japanese - would the Bodleian like them?.
About Poulton's addresses, to be given to the Linnean Society. Also mentions Bedrock. [Poulton's presidential address to the Linnean Society for 1913 and 1914 was about two pamphlets supposedly written by George Washington Sleeper, i.e. "Shall we have Common Sense? Some Recent Lectures" (Boston, 1849) and "shall We Have Free Speech: Education and its Offspring, Civilization" (Providence, 1860). Poulton's address was published as "A Remarkable American Work upon Evolution and the Germ Theory of Disease", Proceedings of the Linnean Society, 1913-1914].
Refers to ARW's wife (Annie's) health and encloses a returned letter from ARW to Ben Miller (dated 18 January 1913) and mentions the presentation of a book to the Linnean Society.
Proofs of the obituary for his father, with notes attached.
Thanks for comments and says he encloses a photo of his father for consideration, requesting that it be returned because he has no other copy.
The Fund is now £236. Marchant wants to issue order for medallion of ARW. Asks if Poulton can get the unpaid promises to him. Miss B. is in town & is going to bring some boxes of Java butterflies for Meldola to hand over to Poulton for the Hope Museum. She will let him know the history of the collection.