Thanks him for plant specimens.
Asks about sowing Drosera seeds.
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Thanks him for plant specimens.
Asks about sowing Drosera seeds.
Inquires about a rumour that CD or Francis Darwin is preparing a new book on the "Power of inheritance".
Tells CD of his new periodical: Zoologische Anzeiger.
Cannot explain the peculiarities of the blood corpuscles of the Camelidae; maybe similarity between camels and ostriches arises from adaptation rather than common ancestry.
Sends fruit of date-palm which has not been impregnated by pollen from a male.
Has read Origin, which "puts everything straight".
Sends an example of natural selection: survival of water-buffalo eating Indian corn submerged by flooding might depend on how long animal could keep nose under water. Encloses measurements of this behaviour.
Neither he nor [Francis Darwin] intends publishing on inheritance.
They are working on physiology of plants [Movement in plants], but will not print for a year.
Thinks JVC’s new journal [Zoologische Anzeiger] will be of great use to students of zoology.
Thanks for CD’s support for [Epping Forest] appointment. Doubts about the proposed management.
Doubts that "the same well-characterized species should be produced in two distinct countries, or at two distinct times".
Comments on FBW’s paper ["Hemipterous fauna of St Helena", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1878): 444–77].
Forwards a copy of the Student’s Magazine, which contains the first of a series of articles on CD and his work.
Thanks EBA for the copy of the Student’s Magazine.
Thanks CD for his efforts to get HM’s book, Die Befruchtung der Blumen [1873], translated into English. [See Fertilisation of flowers, translated by D’Arcy W. Thompson, preface by C. Darwin (1883).]
Will soon return to his observations on insects in general and bees in particular.
Urges publication of an exposure of Williams the spiritualist medium.