RLT will find abundant evidence of absorption by Aldrovanda in CD’s forthcoming book [Insectivorous plants]. Congratulates him on his discovery of ferments.
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RLT will find abundant evidence of absorption by Aldrovanda in CD’s forthcoming book [Insectivorous plants]. Congratulates him on his discovery of ferments.
CD gives a few instances of various animals (starfish, earwigs, spiders) that take charge of their young.
CD sends the gist of an extremely negative report from the [Royal Society’s] physiological referee on the value of RLT’s modifications of Brücke’s process for isolating pepsin [see 10470].
Thanks AG for his kind note and returns his good wishes.
Thanks for AW’s work ["Zur Naturgeschichte der Daphniden", Z. Wiss. Zool. 27: 51–112; 28: 93–254; 30 (suppl.): 123–65; 33: 55–270]. CD always interested in adaptations which appear to owe their structure to other causes.
Has not heard from Raphael Meldola for a long time about translation of AW’s Studien.
Delighted with proofs of illustrations [for Descent]. Hopes AG is pleased with them, as they illustrate facts given on his authority.
Invites AG to Down for a weekend with A. Newton, R. Swinhoe, and Hooker.
Expresses his "unbounded admiration" for Mr Ford’s woodcuts [for Descent]. Thanks AG for his kindness.
Asks AG to identify the species of Triton Mr Ford has drawn.
AG’s help has turned CD’s chapter on fishes and reptiles from "much the worst" into "one of the best" [in Descent].
Invites AG to stay at Down. Winwood Reade and, he hopes, Hooker and Robert Swinhoe will be there.
Sends some questions [missing].
Bad health has prevented him from working for six weeks.
Thanks AG for answer about Galaxias.
Asks him to mention questions about the ears of Mus to other naturalists.
Will send another copy of Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].
AG has proved Ceratodus to be a "wonderfully interesting creature" ["Descripton of Ceratodus", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 161 (1871): 511–72].
Does not know anything about a supra-condyloid process on the humerus, but would like to see RLT’s paper should he publish on the subject.
Is the horned toad of Oregon a batrachian or a lizard?
Hopes AG will be promoted in the British Museum.
Rejoices at AG’s appointment [as Assistant Keeper at the British Museum].
Thanks AG for Popular Science Review containing his article [on Ceratodus, 11 (1872): 257–66]. CD had already read it with great interest.
CD did not bring any tortoises back from the Galapagos. There may be specimens at the Military Institution in Whitehall.
Sorry AG was unable to lunch with the Darwins during their stay in London.
Thanks AG for information [unspecified]; so trifling an error will not alter his opinion that AG is "the most accurate of men".
Asks AG to sign an enclosure [see 9291].
Has given in Descent 2: 12, an account from AG of the brushes on the sides of Monacanthus; has now learned of brush-like scales on the males of Mallotus. Asks whether the two genera are related.