Gives Carl Claus’s identifications of the organisms sent by CD.
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Gives Carl Claus’s identifications of the organisms sent by CD.
Thanks for copy of lecture (Rusden 1874: Selection, natural and artificial, a lecture delivered in the Wangaratta Athenaeum by Mr. H. K. Rusden on Monday, October 26th, 1874) and essay (Rusden 1872: The treatment of criminals in relation to science, an essay read before the Royal Society of Victoria).
Comments on the essay.
Comments on his Flora fossilis Arctica [vol. 3 (1875)]. Discusses successive appearance of plant families in geological periods. Relates plant development to rise of herbivorous mammals.
Comments on death of Charles Lyell.
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent, 2d ed.
Sends two treatises which explain cell-wall formation and some aspects of cell growth in physico-chemical terms ["Experimente zur Theorie d. Zellenbildung und Endosmose", Arch. Anat. Physiol. (1867): 87–128, 126–65].
Thanks correspondent for two essays.
Thanks correspondent for article on CD in Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Thanks OH for his book [see 9876]; agrees that the sudden appearance of many dicotyledons in the Upper Chalk is a perplexing phenomenon for the evolutionist.
CD’s Descent.
Fighting among beetles.
Similarity between dogs and men; intelligence of dogs.
No uniform edition of CD’s works has appeared in England.
Thanks for publication [Berste bijdrage tot een nauwkeuriger kennis der sessile cirripedien (1875)]. Cannot read Dutch. Mentions PPCH’s research on cirripedes.
Has found the relation of pollen-grain size to style size in Primula to be the opposite of CD’s view; asks whether there is an error or just remarkable variation.
Purpose of bushy tails; their usefulness to their owners as a means of keeping warm.
Thinks CD is right about the retention of a tail.
Discusses function of the eyebrows in protecting the eyes from sweat.
Mentions notices in the Nation.
Is glad CD is pleased with his book [Cave hunting (1874)].
Relationship between language and race. The Basques.
Thanks CD for Descent
and for his praise of Cosmic philosophy [1874].
Uses of tails of mice. Functions of tails generally.
Reports an Araujia in Portugal that captures various insects on the horns of its stigma. Relates this to another asclepiad, Apocynum, which also captures insects. Is this "insectivory" or insect fertilisation?
No action on assistance yet, but has had a private note from Disraeli asking whether Thiselton-Dyer is his recommendation.