Thanks for CD’s offer of assistance after flood damage.
Comments on Movement in plants. Discusses sleep movements and paraheliotropism of Maranta and other plants.
Describes the fertilisation of figs by Hymenoptera.
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Thanks for CD’s offer of assistance after flood damage.
Comments on Movement in plants. Discusses sleep movements and paraheliotropism of Maranta and other plants.
Describes the fertilisation of figs by Hymenoptera.
On the proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.
All his advisers agree that CD ought not to take notice of Butler’s attack.
F. M. Balfour has offered to translate EK’s reply to Butler and to send it to Nature. [The letter was published in Nature 23 (1881): 288.]
Sends proofs of lectures he intends to reprint as a book [The Bible and science (1881)]; asks CD if he would check one for errors.
Wants a letter of introduction to Joseph Fayrer.
Letter of introduction for Montagu Lubbock.
Asks whether sheep and cattle grazing on a steep slope move across the slope horizontally or ascend it.
Discusses allegation [about Erasmus Darwin] made by Samuel Butler. Will value LS’s verdict highly.
Thanks for news about Wallace memorial; excellent names on it give hope of success.
Mentions Alfred Haddon, an acquaintance of hers who might call on CD.
Asks FMB to translate letter from Ernst Krause [answering criticisms by Samuel Butler] and to send it to Nature [ "Unconscious memory – Mr Samuel Butler" 23 (1881): 288].
Advises CD to "take no notice of Butler whatever" and gives his reasons.
Has written to Balfour concerning the Butler affair.
Congratulates CD on success of memorial; agrees he should be the one to tell Wallace.
He is buying a portable fire engine, and suggests one is purchased for Down. Wishes to join the Geological Society of London. Is eager to hear Leslie Stephen’s opinion.
Will gladly translate Krause’s letter for Nature; denounces Butler’s book attacking CD.
Thanks LS for his advice and his kind note. When CD thinks how he has been treated he will say to himself "so good a judge as Leslie Stephen thinks nothing of the accusation".
Discusses earthworm activity
and animal grazing on slopes.
Thanks CD for the offer of one of his books, which he gratefully accepts.
Thanks WO for copying and translating [unspecified] passages. CD knew nothing about them, but doubts they are of real use. Passage about summer solstice may indicate something new.
Asks THF to obtain sample of chalk immediately below vegetable mould at Abinger.