Forwards, on behalf of the Birmingham Philosophical Society, an address offering CD the first honorary membership of the Society. Encloses formal record of this meeting.
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Forwards, on behalf of the Birmingham Philosophical Society, an address offering CD the first honorary membership of the Society. Encloses formal record of this meeting.
Plants in Venezuelan plains.
Observations on Turnera: heterostyly, leaf-base glands’ secretion eaten by ants.
Observations on role of leaf secretions in fertilisation of Marcgravia and Passiflora.
Thanks correspondent for a gift of books.
Three hundred copies of Erasmus Darwin remain from the 1000 printed. Demand is small.
Should 250 copies of Forms of flowers be printed before type is distributed?
Potatoes will be lost unless JT has immediate authority to proceed.
Thanks CD for his cheque for £100. Has told Secretary of BAAS Committee [for the Station], so that he may report it. [See O. J. R. Howarth, The British Association (1931), pp. 196–7.]
Thanks for CD’s appreciation of his work on family history. Sends one of his books [unidentified].
Writes on family matters and researches.
Mentions construction of a pendulum
and completion of a paper he will send to the Royal Society.
Going to London today to speak to T. H. Farrer about funds for potato breeding experiments. "I have told Farrer I would subscribe £50."
The Colonel [J. L. Chester] is pleased [see 12509].
Jos[iah Wedgwood III] is dying.
Wonders whether Lord Derby would advance him the money to continue his work.
Is prepared to continue his work, if financial help is forthcoming.
Has sent off paper to the Royal Society
and begun work on a new problem which he feels contains the meaning of Bode’s Law, concerning the mean distances of the planets from the sun. There are mathematical difficulties, however, which he may be unable to surmount.
Will get to work on the pendulum next week.
Encloses check [cheque!?] for £50. James Caird will guarantee £75 and T. H. Farrer £25. Above gentlemen think JT should get report on his experiments from independent agriculturists.
P.S. to letter posted that morning. James Caird cannot pledge £75. Erasmus Darwin and Hensleigh Wedgwood will subscribe. May write letter to the Times. Asks for report on experiments.
Suggests Torbitt make a report on his progress so far.
Describes subscription for Torbitt [to continue potato experiments]. Would dislike writing to any paper, but Hensleigh [Wedgwood] and Erasmus [Darwin] advise CD to write to the Times.
Writes of the weather,
his reading of Huxley’s Crayfish [1880],
and domestic matters.
Encloses note and cheque from James Caird [for Torbitt].
Agrees that CD should write to the Times [about Torbitt’s potato experiments].