Thanks GBE for his great work on the placenta [Nuove ricerche sulla placenta nei pesci cartilaginosi e ne mammiferi (1880)]. The relationship between placental structure and mammalian classification has always seemed interesting to CD.
Thanks GBE for his great work on the placenta [Nuove ricerche sulla placenta nei pesci cartilaginosi e ne mammiferi (1880)]. The relationship between placental structure and mammalian classification has always seemed interesting to CD.
Wants Ipomoea seeds for observing germination.
Thanks FEA for copy of a review of a book on evolution by "an ignorant lawyer".
Sends £5 for Index subscription.
Comments on concept of revelation.
Unable to comment on F. Lloyd’s criticism of Francis Galton’s Hereditary genius [?A scientific view of Mr Galton’s theories of heredity (1876)].
Sorry about Lloyd’s health.
Does not care much about abuse or fame, an advantage of age.
Thanks for the letter from Volney Rattan [see 12553].
Discusses protective adaptation of seedlings from frost.
Gives advice regarding a house.
May CD’s son send some bottles of water, in which Pelargonium leaves have been immersed, for more precise analysis of the potassium or other soluble ash? Can EF recommend a professional analyst to take on further experiments?
Glad to receive the German edition of Erasmus Darwin. Hopes sales will be good. Favourable review has appeared in the United States, in the Nation.
His family shake heads in dismal manner at his proposed title for his MS: "The Circumnutating Movements of Plants". Makes several other suggestions [none of which was adopted].
Thanks correspondent for writing, "but such malconformations, as you mention, are not very rare & therefore do not possess much novelty".
MS of Movement in plants in final stage. Fears it will displease many German physiologists. It is an attempt to bring all the diversified movements of plants under one general law or system.
Forgot he owned vol. 1 of Hermann Engelhard von Nathusius’s Vorträge über Viehzucht und Raßenkenntniss (Nathusius 1872–80). Please to send vol. 2 when convenient.
Thanks for the interesting case of inheritance.
Invites HNM to Down on 9 May.
Requests a copy of Ray Lankester’s lecture or essay on degeneration (Lankester, E. Ray. 1880. Degeneration: A chapter in Darwinism. London: Macmillan.).
Still remembers FJH. Thinks no scientific journal would publish her essay on Genesis and science.
Regrets death of her brother [W. D. Fox].
Hopes that Lankester will come stay next Sunday. Clark, Galton and Moseley will also be there.
Expresses his delight with and admiration for THH’s "Coming of age [of The origin of species]" in Nature [22 (1880): 1–4].
Thanks for information.