Germination and root of Ipomoea.
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Germination and root of Ipomoea.
Is keeping down his expenditure; has some landowners growing potatoes for him.
Sends a poem he has composed in honour of CD.
Describes studies with Ernst Haeckel
and research on psychology of lower animals.
Sends book [Der thierische Wille (1880)] and describes his views on the subject.
Impoverished German doctor asks for money.
Encloses a letter from Volney Rattan of California.
Thanks for cheque.
Wants to see CD.
Discusses a book
and the "splendid news about the elections".
Is beginning Geikie’s Ice age. Describes flints found on the common. Comments on exciting election.
Has received CD’s acknowledgment, through Ernest De La Rue, for the copy he sent of Jungle life [in India (1880)].
Offers to collect material for CD on his return to India.
Will see what can be done about getting thumb impressions, to see if the markings are persistent.
Seeks testimonial, as he is applying for the Keepership of Geology at the British Museum.
W. D. Fox’s sufferings have ended; he died that morning.
Thanks CD for his testimonial and congratulates him on "The coming of age of the ""Origin of Species""". [T. H. Huxley, Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 9 (1879–81): 361–8; Collected essays, vol. 2.]
Attempts to reconcile accounts of man’s creation in Origin and in Genesis, to both of which he is devoted.
CD’s framed letter may be hung in a fireproof gallery in the State House, now being finished.
Sends German edition of Erasmus Darwin.
[CD’s notes form part of a draft for 12586.]
Gives advice regarding a house.
Is coming to England to lecture and would like to meet CD again.
Would like more information about Erasmus Darwin’s shorthand writing for his series on "Shorthand writers of renown".