Receiving deputation gave CD pleasure.
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Receiving deputation gave CD pleasure.
Discusses matters relating to Great Western Railway Company stock.
Thanks for information about Wallace. Is preparing memorial to be submitted to Government [seeking pension for Wallace].
Comments on DM’s ["The Moel-Tryfan shelly deposits", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 37 (1881): 351–69].
Comments on cause of earthquakes.
Believes formation of ice lowered level of sea.
Comments on her new book [Life and her children (1880)]. "… you have treated evolution with much dexterity and truthfulness".
Glad GHD goes on with ripple-marks; if he makes out a theory of ripples, they might give important information about the most ancient deposits.
CD has been wonderfully glorified in the Times [review of Movement in plants, 20 Nov 1880].
Thanks SH for her kind letter; would like to see her again.
Admires Wallace’s Island life.
Criticises: 1. His view of similar plants on distant mountains – CD prefers previous low-land connections to Wallace’s summit–summit dispersal;
2. Source of warmth for ancient Arctic climate;
3. Origin of S. Australian flora.
CD’s favourite cases in Movement in plants.
Discusses GHD’s ripple theory. Asks him how they are formed.
Delighted to hear that light is dawning in GHD’s eyes on the planetary system.
Asks WED to observe whether worms consistently draw acacia leaves into their burrows with a particular end first.
Will soon know whether he will need worm-castings from Beaulieu.
Asks GEM to thank La Scuola Italica for the honour conferred upon him.
Thanks to Times review, Murray needs 500 more copies [of Movement in plants].
Has heard of flood from which Fritz Müller escaped. Has he lost books, microscope, apparatus? Offers £50 or £100.
Will send copy of Movement in plants.
Encloses copies of articles [unspecified].
Thanks JG for his magnificent book [Prehistoric Europe].
Wants to see Frank become F.R.S. before he dies.
Pities Wallace and wants a pension for him very much.
Asks whether WED can collect some worm-castings from Beaulieu Abbey.