Is returning to Down.
Rejoices that GJR writes so much in Nature.
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Is returning to Down.
Rejoices that GJR writes so much in Nature.
CD does not lend money, but he encloses a cheque as a present.
Encloses notice about Wilhelm Roux’s book [see 13118].
Comments on John Collier’s portrait.
Unable to contribute an essay to a symposium on the subject of vivisection. Objects to use of term "symposium".
Mentions articles of Hermann Müller.
Death of his brother Erasmus [26 Aug 1881].
Owes much to Birmingham and great honour conferred on him, but cannot write what RLT wishes.
Thanks GJR for his review of Earthworms [Nature 24 (1881): 553–6].
Asks her to translate a letter by W. F. P. Pfeffer. Mentions views of Julius von Wiesner.
Thanks LJJ for informing him of error [in Earthworms].
CD thinks the celts [prehistoric tools] on the pan could not have been buried wholly by worms.
As for large size of Arctic mammals, CD suggests it is an advantage in retaining warmth.
Explains source of error [in Earthworms].
Discusses GJR’s controversy with the Duke [of Argyll] concerning Roux’s book [Der Kampf der Theile im Organismus (1881)].
Discusses subscription for Grant Allen. Suggests present of microscope.
DJW’s facts are new and curious. CD has other reasons to believe he was wrong in doubting the effect on earthworms of beating the ground.
Declines to provide testimonial for J. C. Ewart, since he has already done so for Lankester. Was also asked by W. C. M’Intosh.
Explains he was not a member of the congress [7th International Medical Conference, August 1881], and hence it would be inappropriate to introduce his likeness into the correspondent’s composition.
Asks him to visit.
Asks for personal information about FWS, former employee of E. A. Darwin. [FWS is applying for position at British Museum.]
Case is hopeless since applicant [for position at British Museum] must not be over thirty years old.
Declines to write testimonial for J. C. Ewart.
Says if W. C. McIntosh ‘were to apply again, I could not refuse to allow him to use again my former testimonial’.
CD wants to see TLB before he leaves London. Much obliged for his aid.