Thanks for congratulations on his coming birthday. Has nothing special to say as a preface to S[erbian] edition [of Origin (1878)], except to hope it is in every way successful.
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Thanks for congratulations on his coming birthday. Has nothing special to say as a preface to S[erbian] edition [of Origin (1878)], except to hope it is in every way successful.
Regrets that GJR was passed over for membership in Royal Society. Discusses criteria applied by Council.
Thanks WCM for plant.
Mentions "your new room" at Down.
Forwards an unspecified work for FD to read.
Sends letter and seeds from [F. J. Cohn].
Is working too hard.
Good article by Fritz Müller in Kosmos supporting August Weismann’s views on caterpillars.
Pleased EH is translating Forms of flowers. Agrees "cowslip" and "oxlip" ought to be translated by their scientific names.
Regrets he was not at home when HDG called.
HDG’s observations on the evolution of the human ear are well worth consideration.
Thanks HM for his review [of Forms of flowers, Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 286].
Thinks HM’s previous article was very important [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 128–40]. CD will "heartily rejoice" if HM has explained the steps by which Rhamnus and Valeriana have been rendered dioecious.
Thanks correspondent for note and specimen; they will be of use in new edition of Forms of flowers.
Is dispatching December number of Kosmos.
Will read the discussion on stridulation that RM mentioned.
Comments on discovery of micro-organisms in disease.
Describes experiments carried out by Francis Darwin on filaments of Dipsacus.
Discusses dates when he might meet the prince (Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria) in London, or perhaps the Prince might visit Down.
Asks about the composition of a spermaceti ointment which he has been buying for some years "because I blackened some young shoots of plants with this ointment mixed with Lamp-black & it produced an extraordinary effect on the shoots, which I think cannot be accounted for merely by the exclusion of light".
Thinks there can be no objection to RM’s using a Fritz Müller letter [see 11319].
CD and son [Francis] working on spontaneous movements of plants and heliotropism.
Has given [Raphael Meldola] permission to read extracts of FM’s last letter [not found], on odours emitted by moths, before Entomological Society [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1878): ii–iii].
Thanks AE for his book [Estudios sobre la flora y fauna de Venezuela (1877)].
Asks whether glaucous plants in Venezuela are more common in drier areas.
In London and wishes to meet JDH.
CD will call on Tuesday morning.
Thanks for kind note, would like to meet him.