Discusses spiritualism. Says Williams, the medium, is exposed as fraud.
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Discusses spiritualism. Says Williams, the medium, is exposed as fraud.
Thanks him for plant specimens.
Asks about sowing Drosera seeds.
Urges publication of an exposure of Williams the spiritualist medium.
Comments on GJR’s article in Fortnightly Review ["The beginning of nerves", n.s. 24 (1878): 509–26].
Comments on "poor old" Edinburgh Review.
Thanks for account of Fuegians
and news about old "Beaglers".
Has been reading A. A. Brassey [Around the world in the yacht "Sunbeam" (1878)].
CD will visit tomorrow.
Encloses letter of recommendation for RIL [for position as Curator, Botanic Garden, Cambridge?]. [See 11770.]
Letter recommending R. I. Lynch [for position as Curator, Botanic Garden, Cambridge].
Comments on GJR’s anonymous book [A candid examination of theism (1878)]. Notes possible theological objections.
Says deformity of wings of geese is not related to injury to gander. Forwards a report on the birds [11717].
Sends copy of H. D. Lindemuth, "Vegetative Bastarderzeugung" [Landwirtsch. Jahrb. 7 (1878): 887–939].
Recommends article on "Brute and human intellect" by William James [J. Speculative Philos. 12 (1878): 236–78].
Comments on apology by Chambers for using some of CD’s material without acknowledgment in discussing Glen Roy. His opinion of Chambers’ book [Ancient sea-margins (1848)].
Discusses a chapter on design, written by WRG’s son [Percy Greg, The devil’s advocate (1878)]. Comments on the younger Greg’s criticisms of natural selection and evolution.
Notes advertisement of Tito Vignoli, Fundamentalgesetz der Intelligenz im Thierreiche [1879].
Declines to sign petition concerning Professorship of Pathology at Cambridge.
Comments on Ann Susan Horner’s escape in a dangerous incident at sea.
Compares addresses by William Buckland and CL, delivered at recent meeting of the Geological Society.
Discusses the views on Glen Roy in Chambers’ Ancient sea-margins [1848].
Speculates that Chambers wrote Vestiges [of creation (1844)].
Mentions returning borrowed book by Camillo Ranzani.
Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from British Museum. "In truth never will a mountain in labour have brought forth such a mouse as my book on the Cirripedia. It is ridiculous the time each species takes me."
Discusses the value of a vegetable diet.
Thanks LAE for publication [Errera and G. Gevaert, Sur la structure et les modes de fécondation des fleurs, 1ère partie (1878)].