Encloses a letter to be forwarded to CD [see 10212].
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Encloses a letter to be forwarded to CD [see 10212].
Asks permission to make a résumé of Insectivorous plants for Société Botanique de Lyon.
Comments on R. L. Tait’s claimed isolation of digestive ferments from Nepenthes.
Asks CD to sign papers for Royal Society candidacy of W. B. Clarke.
E. R. Lankester is in danger of being black-balled for admission to the Linnean Society; Thiselton-Dyer is in the midst of the fight.
CD’s letter from Tiflis is not in Russian but Georgian.
Sends Linnean papers.
Sends thanks for CD’s help in making him a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Dyer has sent some Erinem.
S. C. Malan, Rector of Broadwindsor, could translate Georgian letter from Tiflis.
Comments on AW’s essay [on "Axolotl", Z. Wiss. Zool. 25 (suppl.) (1875): 297–342] with respect to evolutionary reversion. Peloric flowers must also be considered reversion.
He will repeat his experiments on the cat’s sense of smell.
The intelligence of rats is shown by their gnawing through lead pipes to find water.
Reports on various observations and experiments: a duck–fowl hybrid with queer habits,
three cases of man–dog hybrids,
his interarching vine experiments,
and orange scale.
CD is furious at the prospect of Lankester’s being black-balled by the Linnean Society. He plans to solicit support from various members and to come up with Frank for the voting.
Strongly disapproves of the blackballing of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society. States the reasons for his disapproval and hopes they will be considered.
Copies remaining in stock of Climbing plants [2d ed.], 105,
and Origin [6th ed.], 100.
CD should send the printer any corrections he wants made before reprinting.
Asks CD whether it is worth sending money to prop up the Index.
Ferdinand Cohn has already sent a copy of his article, [possibly: "Über die Function der Blasen von Aldrovanda und Utricularia", Beitr. Biol. Pflanz. 1 (1870–5) pt 3: 71–89].
Arranges to visit AWB.
Is delighted CD plans to call on him.
Wants to discuss botanical work.
Declines invitation to breakfast.