Hooker has told her CD is in London. She requests a meeting.
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Hooker has told her CD is in London. She requests a meeting.
Sends his thoughts on [vivisection] petition. Thinks they might make petition more talked about. Leaves it to J. Paget, Burdon Sanderson, and CD to deal with.
Believes correspondent is interested in how physiologists regard the question of legislating on vivisection. He forwards the sketch of a bill drawn up by physiologists for that purpose.
Sends a sketch of a bill on vivisection that he understands LP wishes to see.
Considers the question of recognised lecturers being allowed a licence to perform animal experiments without having to obtain a certificate of fitness.
Will write to Strickland. Asks whether name has already been put down for Athenaeum.
About elections to [an unspecified] club.
CD recounts events of the April-fool’s day séance at Hensleigh [Wedgwood]’s. Asks GHD to find out whether Sidgwick’s account of it agrees with what he has heard. "What rubbish the whole does seem to be!"
Sends reference to Codrington paper on gravels ["The superficial deposits of the south of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 26 (1870): 3–28]. Comments on local gravels in railway cutting and the violent agency of their removal from hills.
Payne will send vine cuttings.
Thomas Belt has been visiting; they are to meet Huxley.
He is moved by denudation of the Weald.
Another message about club elections.
Expresses concern about the "coolness" between CD and [G. S.] Ffinden in regard to the Infant School.
Is sending plants from cut-leaved vine.
Invites GJR to visit.
"When in presence of my ladies do not talk about experiments on animals."
Likes draft of petition on vivisection. Asks whether phrase "and the lower animals" might not be added at end.
Sends the Memorial [concerning animal experimentation].
Explains that there is no need for the addressee to apologise.
Arrangements for a visit to Down.
Sends last part of his book [Ulteriori observazioni sulla dicogamia (1868–74)] [osservazioni!?] and describes contents.
Writes regarding local difficulties concerning Down School and the setting up of a reading-room; his strained relationship with G. S. ffinden following some misunderstanding.
JM expresses willingness to publish CD’s Climbing plants [2d ed.].