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Describes findings of examination of geese with abnormal wings. Says old gander that sired geese is without injury or abnormality. Encloses his assistant’s report.
JBI on CD’s integrity and the separateness of science and religion.
Thanks for the Blue Book [Report to the Local Government Board on the water supplied to London].
Gives instructions for sending the pure water.
Has sent for the Wenham ice.
Enjoyed his talk with EF.
Petition Cambridge University that candidates for an Honour degree may be relieved from the obligation of passing an examination in Greek.
Encloses letter of recommendation for RIL [for position as Curator, Botanic Garden, Cambridge?]. [See 11770.]
Letter recommending R. I. Lynch [for position as Curator, Botanic Garden, Cambridge].
Has observed, perhaps erroneously, that certain plants were excited to movement by a prolonged high note on the bassoon. Would now like to try a siren and asks JT to bring one from the Royal Institution.
Congratulates JT on success in breeding potato varieties.
Comments on GJR’s anonymous book [A candid examination of theism (1878)]. Notes possible theological objections.
Will provide the siren.
Would like CD to explain how he reconciles two passages in 6th ed. of Origin.
Asks whether he may use CD’s letters in his work [Die natürlichen Existenzbedingungen der Thiere (1880)] in order to show that Moritz Wagner has misrepresented CD’s views.
Discusses the influence of isolation and external conditions on animals, and the relative importance of the direct effect of external conditions and of selection in bringing about change.