Encloses notice about Wilhelm Roux’s book [see 13118].
Comments on John Collier’s portrait.
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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].
Discusses present of microscope to Grant Allen.
Mentions sugar-cane paper [by Baron de Villa Franca].
Agrees about Grant Allen affair.
Agrees to write a page or two on behalf of Donald MacAlister.
Sends manuscript by Baron de Villa Franca on the apparent grafting of sugar canes.