CD sends £5.5.0 with a formal note "as some aid to Mrs Beke", but does not wish to subscribe for Dr Beke’s work on Mt Sinai.
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CD sends £5.5.0 with a formal note "as some aid to Mrs Beke", but does not wish to subscribe for Dr Beke’s work on Mt Sinai.
Asks for some seeds of coniferous plants. Wants to examine their first leaves.
Returns [unspecified] enclosure.
Thanks WCW for sending specimens. Drosera spathulata must be descended from some form like D. rotundifolia.
Sends WEG the two articles [see 11163] with references.
CD thinks savages do not have names for shades of colours, which is curious since those he has known have names for every slight promontory or hill.
CD and Emma are delighted with forthcoming marriage of W. E. Darwin to Sara [Sedgwick].
Requests seeds for experiments he and Frank are doing on automatic movements of cotyledons.
Pleased the Senate has passed Grace conferring his LL.D.
Has given dates [for the Cambridge University honorary degree] to the Vice-Chancellor.
Hopes RM finds a publisher [for his translation of Weismann’s Studien].
Sends autograph and wishes EE success in his scientific studies and career.