Frank [Darwin] has found a Trifolium remarkable for "bloom", but it was not in flower. If GHD knows where it grows, could he dig up the whole plant?
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Frank [Darwin] has found a Trifolium remarkable for "bloom", but it was not in flower. If GHD knows where it grows, could he dig up the whole plant?
Requests some seeds.
Believes the leaves of Phyllanthus sleep like those of Cassia.
Heliotropic movements. Is giving up experiments until the spring.
Comments on HNM’s book [Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger" (1879)].
Wishes to subscribe to RM’s translation of Weismann.
Has seen Scudder’s article.
A. R. Wallace’s article ["Animals and their native countries", Nineteenth Century 5 (1879): 247–59] is excellent.
Gives results of the experiments: the leaves in most cases make the water alkaline. It cannot be ammonia. He and his son, Francis, suspect potash, which is valued as a manure. Will be grateful for the analysis EF has offered.
Thanks KA and the other editors of Kosmos for the issue published in honour of his birthday. Sees there is much in it that will interest him greatly.
Thanks ADeB for sending him Botanische Zeitung, but asks him to send it no more, as CD takes it regularly and has procured the volumes from the beginning.
Disagrees with GH over the value of cross-fertilisation.
Thanks for honour of latest number of Kosmos.
Encloses HWB’s Royal Society certificate with seven signatures, which CD thinks is ample.
Thanks for kind letter.
Has not yet read EH’s article in Kosmos ["Einstämmiger und vielstämmiger Ursprung", 4 (1878–9): 360–76].
Rudolf Virchow affair lamentable. Virchow’s conduct inexplicable.
Thanks for birthday greetings.
Can give no information. Has never read works of Aristotle, but has unbounded respect for him as observer.
Has just heard that HM has been treated shamefully by his Government. What has happened?
Thanks AD-P for the gift of part of his Atlas [see 11039].
Discusses heliotropism in plant cotyledons. Asks for information.
Has been asked to contribute to W. K. Clifford memorial fund. Asks JT’s advice on how much the committee hopes to raise. Would like to give handsomely but feels bound "with such a lot of children, not to be extravagant".
CD cannot find his pincers and other tools for microscopical dissection. Does FD know where he should look?
Hopes FD will feel better after "so complete a change" [trip to North Africa].
Sends his love to George.
Bernard gets more charming every day.
CD has been put on a committee for a memorial fund for W. K. Clifford.
Sends thanks to the Masters for congratulations on his birthday, saying "the approbation & sympathy of one’s fellow-workers in the acquisition of knowledge is the highest possible reward which any man ought to desire".