Thanks AG for his kind note and returns his good wishes.
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Thanks AG for his kind note and returns his good wishes.
Fears that the promised bottle of pure water may have been despatched or stolen in passage. [See 11768a.]
Thanks correspondent for the copies of his engraving. "The work seems to be, though I cannot pretend to be a judge, a vy fine production".
G[eorge] has visited A[nthony] R[ich] at Worthing.
Suggests MJ does not worry about the differences in opinion between ecclesiastics and scientists.
Thanks CHB for his anecdote about a provincial girl’s reaction to being told men descended from monkeys.
Thanks for essay on origin of taste for music. Will send to Edmund Gurney.
Asks MN about trustworthiness of Leopold Würtenberger. Would like to aid LW financially in his work.
Is sorry that LW’s circumstances interfere with his scientific work. Does not think any English scientific society can help.
Notes advertisement of Tito Vignoli, Fundamentalgesetz der Intelligenz im Thierreiche [1879].
Has read Hume with great pleasure, but found parts very stiff reading.
George Darwin has visited Anthony Rich.
Thanks GdeS for his photograph; sends his own. Glad to hear GdeS’s work [Le monde des plantes (1879)] is popular in France.
Sends the Fritz Müller article from Kosmos.
Thanks for HNM’s [Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger" (1879)].
Orders a sheet of gold-beater’s skin for plant experiments.
Acknowledges receipt of diploma.
Has told John Lubbock how highly he thinks of HNM’s work, and has heard that HMN’s claims will be fully considered.
Has offered Leopold Würtenberger money to aid in his work.
Movements in Oxalis.
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.]