Obliged for potatoes. Has instructed that they be planted and labelled.
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Obliged for potatoes. Has instructed that they be planted and labelled.
Encloses statement of U. S. sales of CD’s works to 1 Feb 1881 and sends cheque for balance due to CD.
Reports the observations of Thomas Bridges on the Fuegian natives. Discusses especially the languages of the area.
Comments on HMW’s discovery concerning growth of hair on human ears. Asks permission to publish fact.
Is glad CD finds his observations on hair growth on ears new and interesting.
Mentions instances in which young birds possess abilities lacking in the adult.
Encourages HMW’s study of growth of hair on ears. Recommends he publish findings in Nature.
Comments on facts about goatsucker and dorkings.
Reports splendid cases of "paraheliotropism" which he now believes is one of the commonest movements of plants.
Asks whether blue eyes are peculiar to the human species.
Swedish anti-vivisectionists are claiming CD is opposed to animal experiments; Holmgren wishes CD to state his position.
Sends GdeS and A. F. Marion, L’évolution du règne végétal. Les cryptogames [1881].
Murray’s will be happy to publish [Earthworms] on usual terms of two-thirds profits.
Sends his last report on Russian wheat varieties [Gard. Chron. n.s. 15 (1881): 430–2].
Considers which part of grass embryo is the cotyledon.
Sends pamphlet showing that magnetism is the fundamental element by which all is created and maintained.
Obliged for extract from Gardeners’ Chronicle about Russian wheat. "It is a capital instance of one var. gradually beating out another."
Cannot remember where he put G. Henslow’s note [on the cotyledon of grass embryos].
Announces CD’s election as an Honorary Corresponding Member of the Club.
Sends "Ginger Beer Plant", a seed that assists the fermentation of ginger beer. [Also enclosed are instructions for making ginger beer dated, presumably erroneously, 18 Oct 1881.]
On vivisection. Has read CD’s letter to Frithiof Holmgren and answers the points raised in it.
Requests that CD lecture on evolution in Lichfield.
Discusses vivisection and contradicts CD’s defence of English physiologists.
Vivisection; CD’s exchange with Holmgren.