Discusses his health following a visit to Dr C[lark?]. Has made an appointment for CD.
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Discusses his health following a visit to Dr C[lark?]. Has made an appointment for CD.
CD particularly wishes to see JT "On business not connected with himself" [the fund for Huxley’s holiday]. Asks whether CD may call that afternoon. GHD adds postscript saying CD very fatigued. He hopes JT can come to see CD instead, but he should not mention that GHD suggested it.
Corrects chemical concentrations CD has been using [in insectivorous plant experimentation].
Writes for CD to thank RS for his very valuable information.
Criticises CD’s letter to Nature ["Complemental males in certain cirripedes", Collected papers 2: 177–82].
On the elimination of useless parts.
GHD fails to see the point of CD’s use of the law of distribution about a mean.
Sends table showing relative force of impact of weight dropped on a plane inclined at different angles.
Sends CD a draft of a letter to Nature [see 9087], which he thinks expresses CD’s meaning.
Sends, with CD’s approval, a clarification of CD’s explanation of how useless organs might diminish [see 9061]. Using Quetelet’s law of normal distribution GHD shows how horns of cattle, having become useless, would gradually diminish and finally disappear.
Has decided to send the letter ["Variation of organs", Nature 8 (1873): 505].
Writes of his poor health and problems of settling in at Trinity.
On bodies of varying elasticity bouncing off inclined planes [see 9096].