Asks WBC for his vote and influence in favour of Albert Dicey at the Athenaeum balloting.
CD feels "as old as Methusalem".
Asks WBC for his vote and influence in favour of Albert Dicey at the Athenaeum balloting.
CD feels "as old as Methusalem".
Thanks for the birthday greetings.
"I feel a very old man and my course is nearly run."
Thanks for sympathy on death of Erasmus [Alvey Darwin].
Suggests rewording statement concerning source of CD’s views on evolution.
Recalls happy days at Penally.
Birthday congratulations.
Describes his use of alcohol and tobacco.
Thanks for AD’s letter.
Owen has published a paper on the brain in relation to the mouth ["On the homology of the conario-hypophysial tract", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 16 (1881–2): 131–49]. CD cannot avoid suspicion that the original idea was borrowed from AD.
F. M. Balfour very ill. His death would be a great loss.
Agrees with TLB’s views regarding the constitution of the proposed Science Defence Association.
Asks for autographs.
Happy to vote for Albert Venn Dicey’s membership of the Athenaeum Club.
Thanks JC for the gift of his book [A primer of art (1882)]. Wishes JC could explain why certain lines and figures give pleasure.
Comments on Huxley’s essays on Priestley and [animal] automatism [Science and culture and other essays (1881)].
JC’s portrait [of CD] is much admired.
Offering to send a copy of Kosmos containing a short review of her Life, letters and journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart. (K. M. Lyell ed. 1881).
CD’s observations on the geology of S. Africa, which he considers of no value, were published in Volcanic islands.
Asks HWB to sign and return F.R.S. certificate for Raphael Meldola; if he objects to signing, CD will not mention the fact. [Meldola elected F.R.S., June 1886.]
CD thanks MS and his fellow German students for their kind birthday wishes.
Has found a Dytiscus marginalis with a small bivalve attached to its leg.
An experienced keeper of house plants assures CD that earthworms do not injure roots.
Has heard that Brown is collecting subscriptions for Mrs George Cupples and so he encloses £40.
F. M. Balfour slept well; doctors think he is improving.
His Dytiscus fact interesting. Indispensable to know name of shell. Case worth communicating to Nature. [See "On the dispersal of freshwater bivalves", Nature 6 April 1882, pp. 529–30.]
Has rarely read anything more interesting than WO’s introduction to his Aristotle translation. Had no notion what a wonderful man Aristotle was. Linnaeus and Cuvier were mere schoolboys compared to him. His ignorance on some points, as on muscles and the means of movement, is curious.