Thanks for KHvS’s book [La province de Smyrne (1873)].
Discusses possible meeting.
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Thanks for KHvS’s book [La province de Smyrne (1873)].
Discusses possible meeting.
Thanks him for Balanus specimens. Comments on his findings. A large Acasta in the wet state would be valuable. Asks JSB to mention his work to J. T. Quekett at the College of Surgeons.
Congratulates correspondent on appointment to important post.
Leaving tomorrow for visit [with William Darwin].
Cannot express opinion on RT’s views on earthquakes. To do good work on that subject a man must be deeply versed in wave motions.
Will be glad to read over her article.
CD hopes to have an hour’s talk with CJFB before CD leaves London.
Sends two waste sheets of MS of Descent; Miss F can cut out any portion she likes.
Sends naturalists’ autographs.
Enjoyed fortnight at Moor Park.
Orders first part of vol. 3 of Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Histoire naturelle générale des règnes organiques [3 vols. (1854–62)].
"Please give Bearer Books for me.–"
Asks whether the wild boar in India is polygamous.
Sends a specimen of rusty wheat from the banks of the Plata.
Asks for bits of peat he collected
and a bit of the paint used by Fuegians to colour themselves.
He will send these to C. G. Ehrenberg for analysis.
Thanks for part nine of WHE’s [Butterflies of North America (1868–72)].
Comments on trimorphism in Papilio ajax.
Asks whether GC knows who gave CD a scolding in last Edinburgh Review [Apr 1873].
Comments on CHB’s book [Experimental researches on catarrhus aestivus – hay-fever or hay-asthma (1873)].
Explains that some pollens are wind-blown while others depend on insects for dispersal. Effect of pollen on skin and mucous membrane astonishing. Sends a book [M. Wyman, Autumnal catarrh (1872)].
Returns insectivorous plants to Kew, with questions about their range. Most species seem to have remarkably confined ranges.
Asks for a Bengal Aldrovanda leaf so that he can see whether it differs from the German species.
Roridula interested him extremely.