Cites evolutionary passages by Alexander Braun in English edition of Braun’s Verjüngung [1853].
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.
GH no longer believes in the value of cross-fertilisation in plants.
Gives results of the experiments: the leaves in most cases make the water alkaline. It cannot be ammonia. He and his son, Francis, suspect potash, which is valued as a manure. Will be grateful for the analysis EF has offered.
Sends birthday wishes.
Comments on progress of CD’s theory in Germany. Mentions opposition of Rudolf Virchow and his reply Freie Wissenschaft und freie Lehre [1878].
Describes research trip to Brittany and Normandy.
Research on Challenger Radiolaria.
Birthday congratulations from the editors of Kosmos. They will mark the occasion with a special number of Kosmos.
Thanks KA and the other editors of Kosmos for the issue published in honour of his birthday. Sees there is much in it that will interest him greatly.
Birthday greetings.
Thanks ADeB for sending him Botanische Zeitung, but asks him to send it no more, as CD takes it regularly and has procured the volumes from the beginning.
Disagrees with GH over the value of cross-fertilisation.
Thanks for honour of latest number of Kosmos.
Encloses HWB’s Royal Society certificate with seven signatures, which CD thinks is ample.
Thanks for kind letter.
Has not yet read EH’s article in Kosmos ["Einstämmiger und vielstämmiger Ursprung", 4 (1878–9): 360–76].
Rudolf Virchow affair lamentable. Virchow’s conduct inexplicable.
Has sent copy of his new book, Colour-sense [1879]; in anticipation of criticism, he justifies his reliance on recorded observations rather than experiments, by the heavy demands of his career as a journalist.