Explains why he cannot sign Miss Cobbe’s anti-vivisection petition.
Explains why he cannot sign Miss Cobbe’s anti-vivisection petition.
Explains more fully why CD cannot sign Miss Cobbe’ anti-vivisection petition.
Is on the eve of another row with the Office of Works about his application for assistance.
Would like to see papers [on potato grafting] mentioned by CD.
CD has doubtless seen case in Gardeners’ Chronicle of vine in which scion has affected the stock [P. Grieve, "Singular sport upon a grape vine", Gard. Chron. (1875): 21].
Is alarmed by the petitions against vivisection that are being circulated. Believes there is scope for reasonable legislation and would like to see eminent physiologists prepare a petition so that the science could be protected and animals saved from needless suffering.