References to figures of Coryanthes.
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References to figures of Coryanthes.
Gratitude for the invaluable assistance. Is disappointed that natural soil is richer than burnt. Problem of securing sufficient chemically pure soil to test growth of plants.
Comments on CD’s criticism of Geographical distribution.
Plans to sell his house.
Asks about constituents of burnt soil.
On burnt soils.
Thanks for kindness in organising special train for Caroline Sarah Wedgwood when she was taken ill.
Delighted to hear of Frank Darwin’s discovery.
Seems hopeless to reason with people about vivisection.
CD thanks the editor of a picture book "for … the photographs of your striking pictures, & for the honour which you have done me by the introduction of my name and likeness into one of them".
Thanks for his interesting essay on insectivorous plants.
Further detailed comments on Geographical distribution.
Base treatment [of George Darwin] by Mivart in Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 40–77].
Asks how the Coleoptera that inhabit the nests of ants colonise a new nest. Wallace has suggested their ova become attached to winged female ants.
Obliged for the new edition of The Andes.
JDH’s suggested text for Lyell’s tablet in Westminster Abbey.
Vigner[?] separates digestive principle from Nepenthes, disproving R. L. Tait.
Comments on an address by William Thomson (‘On the rigidity of the earth’?), which is about the same problem that GHD is working on. Is confident Thomson has overlooked some points.
CD and family suggest inscriptions for Lyell memorial at Westminster Abbey.
CD communicating H. Airy’s paper on phyllotaxis to the Royal Society.
Frank observes pod-like emanations from glands of insectivorous plant ingesting solid insect particles [see 10520].
Returns Mrs Lyell’s versions of Lyell memorial inscription. Disapproves of religious tone.
Coleoptera inhabiting ants’ nests. Means of colonisation of new nests.
Forwards for publication an article by Dr Richardson [apparently not published] showing the necessity of experiments on living animals. Hopes it will make women, "who from the tenderness of their hearts and from their profound ignorance are the most vehement opponents of all such experiments", pause.
Describes cosmological ideas of Christian Radenhausen.
Doubts Christian Radenhausen’s cosmological views are based on fact.