Agrees to aid HA in applying for membership in a society.
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Agrees to aid HA in applying for membership in a society.
Discusses loss of voluntary movement of ears in man and monkey.
Discusses movement of ears and contraction of the platysma.
Discusses phyllotaxy, citing work of Carl Nägeli and Chauncey Wright.
CD’s son Leonard of the Royal Engineers has applied to Sir George Biddell Airy to be an observer on the Venus Expedition. Leonard failed to mention his qualifications, which CD now relates with the request that HA draw them to his father’s attention.
Sends HA’s paper ["On leaf arrangement"] with a supporting note [from CD] to Royal Society.