Asks to be sent Dr Frank’s Die Natur: wagerechte Richtung von Pflanzentheilen.
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Asks to be sent Dr Frank’s Die Natur: wagerechte Richtung von Pflanzentheilen.
[Draft of letter for Francis Darwin to write to SF.] CD declines to express an opinion on SF’s query.
Has signed certificates.
Gives his opinion on the education of girls in physiology. Would regret that any girl who wished to learn physiology should be checked.
Asks specific questions on looking after plants of Dionaea. [The correspondent’s replies to the questions are written beneath them.]
Asks FD to mollify Daniel Oliver and assure him that CD asks "only for what I wd. give my life’s blood for".
Asks WED to make some observations on Acacia or Robinia.
The extract from Ticknor [see 10722] is one of the most curious cases of inheritance CD has met with. He has sent it to Francis Galton as CD is not likely to write on inheritance again.
Asks for Tom. 23 of the Bulletin de la Soc. Bot. de France to be purchased for him.
A letter in support of [Ann Jane] Cupples’ request to the Royal Literary Fund for assistance. Her talent, industry, and need.
Thanks AN for telling him of the complex cross among wagtails. CD is surprised that so much close interbreeding does not check their propagation.
CD does not suppose he will ever have strength to work up his data on hybridism, so he will not write to Mr Monk.
Asks AG not to send his rare specimens [of Leucosmia].
Is glad of the notice about black pigs.
Has great faith in Jeffries Wyman;
thinks A. R. Wallace founds his speculation on a feeble basis.
Suggests that the scarcity of holly berries is owing to the scarcity of bees during the spring, rather than to frost. He does not know what caused the scarcity of bees.
Discusses certificate proposing GJR as Fellow of Royal Society.
Has received French essay on effects of conscription on [decreasing] height of men, due to unfit left at home to propagate race. Would FG care to see it?
Can FG come to lunch on Sunday? George Darwin wants to meet him.
Declines offer involving embryological studies.
GMT’s observations [on scarcity of holly berries] throw doubt on CD’s conclusions [see Collected papers 2: 189–90].
Comments on AW’s book [Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie (1875–6)], especially on mimicry in caterpillars.
Mentions sets of drawings of British Lepidoptera in all stages. Would AW like to see them?
CD asks if he may call next day for talk.