Offended by F. V. Dickins’ review [Nature 21 (1880): 350] of his Omori mound paper. Asks CD to have it reviewed elsewhere and encloses a letter to Nature he wants CD to forward. [See 12571.]
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Offended by F. V. Dickins’ review [Nature 21 (1880): 350] of his Omori mound paper. Asks CD to have it reviewed elsewhere and encloses a letter to Nature he wants CD to forward. [See 12571.]
Is impressed by the scale of Torbitt’s experiments. Discusses financial assistance. If Torbitt’s work succeeds, they will be amply repaid.
Informs CD that the letter CCG received from him has been framed to be hung in the Kentucky State House.
Germination and root of Ipomoea.
Is keeping down his expenditure; has some landowners growing potatoes for him.
Sends a poem he has composed in honour of CD.
Describes studies with Ernst Haeckel
and research on psychology of lower animals.
Sends book [Der thierische Wille (1880)] and describes his views on the subject.
Impoverished German doctor asks for money.
Encloses a letter from Volney Rattan of California.
Thanks for cheque.
Wants to see CD.
Is beginning Geikie’s Ice age. Describes flints found on the common. Comments on exciting election.
Has received CD’s acknowledgment, through Ernest De La Rue, for the copy he sent of Jungle life [in India (1880)].
Offers to collect material for CD on his return to India.
Will see what can be done about getting thumb impressions, to see if the markings are persistent.
Seeks testimonial, as he is applying for the Keepership of Geology at the British Museum.
W. D. Fox’s sufferings have ended; he died that morning.
Thanks CD for his testimonial and congratulates him on "The coming of age of the ""Origin of Species""". [T. H. Huxley, Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 9 (1879–81): 361–8; Collected essays, vol. 2.]
Attempts to reconcile accounts of man’s creation in Origin and in Genesis, to both of which he is devoted.
CD’s framed letter may be hung in a fireproof gallery in the State House, now being finished.
Sends German edition of Erasmus Darwin.
[CD’s notes form part of a draft for 12586.]
Is coming to England to lecture and would like to meet CD again.