Discusses an experiment.
His dogs appear to have rabies.
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Discusses an experiment.
His dogs appear to have rabies.
Asks for Tom. 23 of the Bulletin de la Soc. Bot. de France to be purchased for him.
As AE hardly admits evolution, they view all subjects differently.
Credits himself with stimulating most of the American work on plant cross-fertilisation. Sends his review of Cross and self-fertilisation [in Penn Monthly (June 1877)]. Suggests CD, A. Gray, and TM now agree on the extent of self-fertilisation in nature.
Circular letter advertising Ernest Lavigne’s scheme to educate wealthy foreign children in Paris.
On painful state of CD’s reception in France.
Sends CD lithograph plates as examples of a book he hopes to publish.
Thanks CD for allowing him to translate his paper ["Biographical sketch of an infant"] for the Cologne Gazette. Sends copies.
Reports monstrous Papaver hybridum not mentioned in M. T. Masters’ Teratology [1869].
Thanks for review. Fears "we must agree to differ".
Health weak. Not worth TM’s time to visit.
Thanks him for his book [Du Darwinisme ou l’homme singe (1877)] and letter.
Thanks CD for account of F. A. Pouchet’s experiments. Cannot yet dispute his conclusions.
Continues experiments on the colour of goldfish as affected by light and presence of plants.
Asks for CD’s "Sketch of an infant" [Collected papers 2: 191–200]. He has made observations on new-born children and mammals to determine what behaviour is inherited and what acquired.
Thanks AD-P for plates [from Arnold and Carolina Dodel-Port, Atlas der Botanik (1878–83)]. Will be useful to all who teach botany.
Has enjoyed CD’s last publications, especially on self-fertilisation of plants.
Believes a visit by CD to the U. S. would do much to promote his theories.
Reports on American campaign against locusts [by C. V. Riley].
Discusses inheritance.
Has WP heard of Douglas Spalding’s experiments of blindfolding chickens ["Instinct – with original observations on young animals", Rep. BAAS 42 (1872): 141–3]?
Asks for advice on how to care for previously sent species.
Occurrence of "bloom".
CD admires Herbert Spencer’s genius but not his "deductive style" of expression.
Asks permission to print translation of "A biographical sketch of an infant" [Collected papers 2: 191–200] in Kosmos.
Notes divisions among German Darwinists.
Thanks CD for Forms of flowers. Comments on the chapter on cleistogamic flowers; offers some corrections.