Sends seeds of Megarrhiza and gives details of species.
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Sends seeds of Megarrhiza and gives details of species.
Encloses letter from James Caird, who has entire confidence in CD’s appropriation of the money [collected for Torbitt’s experiments].
Hopes to finish his report tomorrow; last year’s crosses were failures.
Asks about possible erratum in JT’s account of experiments.
Sends pheasant tail coverts, which he believes are unusual in pattern, resembling those of a peacock.
Asks for additional information about JT’s potato experiments.
Thanks for letter and documents [about potato experiments]. Will send testimonial letter to James Caird to be circulated among possible financial supporters of JT’s work.
Wishes to see some small appointment found for A. R. Wallace, whose present labours are trying.
German edition of Erasmus Darwin delayed because Murray has not sent phototypes and galvanographs.
Two of CD’s articles from Nature to appear in April Kosmos ["Sexual colours in butterflies", Collected papers 2: 220–2, Kosmos 7 (1880): 72–4;
"Fertility of hybrids from the Chinese goose", Collected papers 2: 219–20, Kosmos 7 (1880): 77–8].
Moritz Wagner will begin a series criticising natural selection.
Offended by F. V. Dickins’ review [Nature 21 (1880): 350] of his Omori mound paper. Asks CD to have it reviewed elsewhere and encloses a letter to Nature he wants CD to forward. [See 12571.]
Encloses a statement regarding the progress of Torbitt’s potato experiments, and discusses the handling of the fund CD holds for Torbitt.
Is impressed by the scale of Torbitt’s experiments. Discusses financial assistance. If Torbitt’s work succeeds, they will be amply repaid.
Informs CD that the letter CCG received from him has been framed to be hung in the Kentucky State House.
"[James] Caird seems satisfied with what I have said of your method and the results hitherto attained." Can now promise to send £90 in the autumn.
Encloses letter about JT’s potato experiments sent to T. H. Farrer.
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.