Discusses difficulties involved in plant experiment designed to test Pangenesis.
Discusses difficulties involved in plant experiment designed to test Pangenesis.
Discusses concept of intelligence in his Earthworms manuscript.
Remarks on GJR’s work on echinoderms.
Comments on Wilhelm Roux [Der Kampf der Theile im Organismus (1881)].
Discusses animal instincts, citing Fabre’s description of sand-wasps.
Discusses GJR’s experiments on heliotropism in plants; views of Philippe van Tieghem and Julius von Wiesner. Describes his own experiments.
Mentions his letter on vivisection [to Frithiof Holmgren, see 13115] in the Times [18 Apr 1881].
Comments on GJR’s letter in the Times [25 Apr 1881] concerning vivisection. Mentions activity of anti-vivisectionists, G. R. Jesse and F. P. Cobbe.
Agrees to sit for portrait. Thinks John Collier is a good artist, an opinion based on his portrait of Hooker.
CD is glad the portrait [of CD by John Collier] has been arranged; suggests dates, but feels he should have no say in the subscriptions or remuneration.
Thinks the Lakes are beautiful.
Is reading W. Graham’s The creed of science.
Is returning to Down.
Rejoices that GJR writes so much in Nature.
Encloses notice about Wilhelm Roux’s book [see 13118].
Comments on John Collier’s portrait.
Unable to contribute an essay to a symposium on the subject of vivisection. Objects to use of term "symposium".
Mentions articles of Hermann Müller.
Death of his brother Erasmus [26 Aug 1881].
Thanks GJR for his review of Earthworms [Nature 24 (1881): 553–6].
Discusses GJR’s controversy with the Duke [of Argyll] concerning Roux’s book [Der Kampf der Theile im Organismus (1881)].
Discusses subscription for Grant Allen. Suggests present of microscope.
Declines to provide testimonial for J. C. Ewart, since he has already done so for Lankester. Was also asked by W. C. M’Intosh.
Asks him to visit.
Declines to write testimonial for J. C. Ewart.
Says if W. C. McIntosh ‘were to apply again, I could not refuse to allow him to use again my former testimonial’.
Describes grafting experiment of Baron de Villa Franca, which produced new varieties of sugar-cane. Encloses related documents.
Asks GJR’s opinion about grafting experiments on sugar-cane carried out by the Baron [de Villa Franca].
Accepts GJR’s offer to prepare sugar-cane paper for publication [Villa Franca and Glass, "New varieties of sugar-cane", Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1880–2): 30–1]. Suggests introduction and outline.
Agrees with GJR on microscope for Grant Allen.
Prefers to make the present of microscope at once [to Grant Allen].
Returns CD’s letter concerning testimonial fund for Grant Allen.