Mentions receiving GJR’s paper on Medusae [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 524–31].
Will call on GJR in London.
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Mentions receiving GJR’s paper on Medusae [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 524–31].
Will call on GJR in London.
Trip to London delayed.
Will call tomorrow morning.
Congratulates GJR on lecture ["The physiology of the nervous system of Medusa", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 8 (1875–8): 166–77].
Encloses essay by Haeckel criticising Pangenesis [Die Perigenesis der Plastidule (1876)]. Discusses Haeckel’s theory of inheritance.
Asks about the Physiological Society.
Describes discovery by his son [Francis Darwin] of protoplasmic filaments extending from small glands in the leaves of Dipsacus [see Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1877): 4–8].
Joseph Fayrer can supply cobra poison.
Discusses vivisection.
Mentions visit to the John Hawkshaws.
Asks to show GJR’s letter to George Darwin and other sons. A secret cannot be well kept.
Thanks for copy of 2d ed. of Variation.
Anticipates reading Haeckel’s Perigenesis der Plastidule [1876].
Physiologists will think vivisection bill stringent.
Honorary memberships of Physiological Society created expressly to honour CD.
Working hard at jellyfish just now. Needs snake poison.
Delighted to hear of Frank Darwin’s discovery.
Seems hopeless to reason with people about vivisection.
No results yet with graft-hybrids.
Has been writing a paper.
"Lankester seems to have doubled up [H.] Slade [the medium] in fine style".