At the inaugural meeting of the Epping Forest & Essex Naturalists’ Field Club, CD was elected an Honorary Member.
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At the inaugural meeting of the Epping Forest & Essex Naturalists’ Field Club, CD was elected an Honorary Member.
Would be glad to see RLT at Down if he thinks it fit to come there to deliver the address honouring CD.
Has been at work on Orchideae for Genera plantarum and has found CD’s Orchids wonderfully useful. Comments on some problems of botanical terminology.
Agrees not to reply to Butler.
Asks CD to telegraph a testimonial for him.
On clubroot fungus of cultivated Cruciferae.
Will give Russian wheat varieties another trial.
Testimonial for S. B. J. Skertchly, stating CD’s high opinion of his work.
On instinct in insects. Intends to experiment as CD proposes.
Speculates on origin of habit [of insects?] of laying eggs on plants of certain families.
Nature [21 (1880): 382] has an item about tremors and earth movements in Japan.
Thanks CD for his offer. Suggests it be used to start a fund to pay travel expenses of English naturalists who want to come to the Station.
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.
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.