Had no intention of pressing CD over Madame Michelet’s fundraising for her husband’s tomb.
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Had no intention of pressing CD over Madame Michelet’s fundraising for her husband’s tomb.
CD cannot see the Emperor of Brazil because he is in Southampton, but he sends sincere respects for the Emperor’s role in assisting science.
JDH finds the Emperor, once an energetic man, all used up.
JDH recounts circumstances of his receiving Star of India (K.C.S.I.).
Asks if phosphoric acid could have killed Drosera he received in a matchbox.
Concerning the publication of a French edition of Coral Reefs.
States that the sheep of the Cape will produce twins only when herbage is plentiful before rutting-time.
Makes some observations on bustards and baboons.
Asks permission for French translation [of "Biographical sketch of an infant"].
Emperor of Brazil continues to press JDH for a meeting with CD.
JDH’s daughter, Harriet, marries W. T. Thiselton-Dyer.
Requests duplicates of [H. M. S.] Challenger Pycnogonidae.
Having just read Climbing plants, wishes CD to have enclosed pamphlets, one on cucumbers from 20 years ago, and another on movement in vegetables, also very old.
Reports an annual bean plant that formed a tuber and is now growing in the second year.
Criticises Herbert Spencer’s Principles of sociology, particularly for its treatment of the family, for its superficiality, and for its dependence on J. F. McLennan’s views on exogamy. Americans are coming to see Spencer’s ideas as too broad.
Thanks for CD’s £5 contribution towards Jules Michelet’s tomb.
Has heard through Asa Gray of CD’s interest in his work on Lithospermum and Oxalis. Thinks dimorphism in Oxalis is but early stage toward complete separation of sexes.
Explains the delay in publishing [Forms of flowers].
He is delivering address at the British Medical Association’s Manchester meeting ["Address in medicine", Br. Med. J. (1877) pt 2: 168–73]. Will develop theme that parasites are variations of common types, e.g., Bacillus anthracis is a variant of B. subtilis. Asks for more examples.
Wants CD’s advice on who would undertake describing the Crustacea from the Challenger expedition [1872–6].