Thanks correspondent for article on CD in Gardeners’ Chronicle.
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Thanks correspondent for article on CD in Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Discusses function of the eyebrows in protecting the eyes from sweat.
Mentions notices in the Nation.
Is sending plants from cut-leaved vine.
Invites GJR to visit.
"When in presence of my ladies do not talk about experiments on animals."
August Weismann is interested in JJW’s experiments on birds and the caterpillars they eat.
Thanks JP for volume of his lectures [Clinical lectures and essays, ed. H. Marsh (1875)].
Mentions "vivisection question".
Regarding Cytisus graft with yellow flowers, CD thinks nurseryman has sold Cytisus adami to JJW’s brother in place of C. purpureus. This explains apparent "sport". [P.S. on envelope:] C. purpureus seeds freely. C. adami never does.