Offers CD gift of slab with fossil annelid tracks.
Does CD know geologist who might give lecture in Dudley?
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Offers CD gift of slab with fossil annelid tracks.
Does CD know geologist who might give lecture in Dudley?
On aggregation of protoplasm in root cells.
Is preparing new edition of Sachs [Text-book of botany, morphological and physical, ed. S. H. Vines, 2d ed. (1882)].
Can he improve his oat crop by growing home-grown and purchased cereals together?
Asks about significance of trilobites for evolution.
Asks if any organism can be designated as animal in one stage and vegetable in another.
CD’s division of his surplus income; fire engines; Sara Darwin’s relatives; GHD’s paper in Nature.
Birthday congratulations from the Naples Zoological Station. A new physiological department will be constructed. Describes work in progress at the Station.
Sends his paper on teleosteans.
Heard R. Owen read a paper at York [meeting of BAAS]. Owen had views similar to AD’s, but seemed not to be aware of work of others.
Will not support Raphael Meldola’s application to the Royal Society.
Slab with annelid tracks being sent. Memorandum enclosed describing bed from which it came.
Seven German students drink to CD’s health on his 75th [sic] birthday.
Writes regarding the form which the proposed Science Defence Association should take and encloses a draft of proposed resolutions.
Birthday congratulations.
Asks for autographs.
Happy to vote for Albert Venn Dicey’s membership of the Athenaeum Club.
Has found a Dytiscus marginalis with a small bivalve attached to its leg.
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.