Has found a Dytiscus marginalis with a small bivalve attached to its leg.
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Has found a Dytiscus marginalis with a small bivalve attached to its leg.
An experienced keeper of house plants assures CD that earthworms do not injure roots.
F. M. Balfour slept well; doctors think he is improving.
Describes his collections and research on Brazilian insects, especially Orthoptera. Comments on insect phylogeny.
Thanks CD for note on his book on the sense of beauty [A primer of art (1882)].
Views of Huxley and Spencer on consciousness.
Has identified the shell, now separated from the beetle. Sends both to CD.
F. M. Balfour getting on better in hospital.
Asks for CD’s opinion on certain theistic ideas. If spontaneous generation from inorganic material is denied, then life must be derived from some eternal being.
Thanks CD for helping to get him elected to the Athenaeum.
Encloses MS on sexual selection acting on street dogs of Beirut [MS of "On the modification of a race of Syrian street dogs", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 25 (1882): 367–70, published with a prefatory notice by CD.
Gives information about the Great Western Railway dividend.