Waiting for frost to go so experiments can start again.
Waiting for frost to go so experiments can start again.
Returns the siren; the plants "ill luck to them, are not sensitive to aerial vibrations". Is ashamed of his blunder.
Thanks for GdeS’s Le monde des plantes [1879].
CD has just read "Végétation polaire" [C. R. Congr. Int. Sci. Geogr. 1 (1878): 197–242] with interest. Hooker gave it conspicuous place in his Royal Society Address (1878).
Recommends article on "Brute and human intellect" by William James [J. Speculative Philos. 12 (1878): 236–78].
About Anthony Rich, who has decided to leave his fortune to CD [and later also to make a bequest to THH]. CD’s account of what he wrote to Rich.
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.
Responds to criticism concerning varieties, species, and genera.