CD gives his opinion on vivisection with the understanding that the whole letter will be published. Worked for Act of Parliament, but disapproves of the one passed. CD convinced English physiologists do not perform cruel experiments.
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CD gives his opinion on vivisection with the understanding that the whole letter will be published. Worked for Act of Parliament, but disapproves of the one passed. CD convinced English physiologists do not perform cruel experiments.
Asks whether blue eyes are peculiar to the human species.
Swedish anti-vivisectionists are claiming CD is opposed to animal experiments; Holmgren wishes CD to state his position.
Sends GdeS and A. F. Marion, L’évolution du règne végétal. Les cryptogames [1881].
Sends his last report on Russian wheat varieties [Gard. Chron. n.s. 15 (1881): 430–2].
Considers which part of grass embryo is the cotyledon.
Sends pamphlet showing that magnetism is the fundamental element by which all is created and maintained.
Obliged for extract from Gardeners’ Chronicle about Russian wheat. "It is a capital instance of one var. gradually beating out another."
Cannot remember where he put G. Henslow’s note [on the cotyledon of grass embryos].
Announces CD’s election as an Honorary Corresponding Member of the Club.
Sends "Ginger Beer Plant", a seed that assists the fermentation of ginger beer. [Also enclosed are instructions for making ginger beer dated, presumably erroneously, 18 Oct 1881.]
On vivisection. Has read CD’s letter to Frithiof Holmgren and answers the points raised in it.
Requests that CD lecture on evolution in Lichfield.
Discusses vivisection and contradicts CD’s defence of English physiologists.
Vivisection; CD’s exchange with Holmgren.
Asks if he may publish CD’s reply to his previous letter.
CD will not permit publication of his previous letter on vivisection.
Gives case of the inheritance of a tendency to turn grey at a particular age,
and, from his own family, details of the inheritance of a thumb deformity that apparently originated with his grandfather.
Regrets CD will not allow publication of his letter.
Sends observations of wormcasts at Malvern. Describes stay at Abinger.
A student and an admirer of CD wishes to have a few lines from him.
Wishes AE every success in his scientific studies.