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.
Thanks AD and the naturalists at the Station for their birthday congratulations.
CD has been awarded the Bressa prize of the Accademia delle Scienze in Turin, and it occurs to him that if the Station wanted some apparatus costing about £100, he would like to pay for it.
Agrees not to reply to Butler.
CD pleased to be of use to GB. He remembers his own work on orchids with pleasure. Thinks GB will be able to improve CD’s terminology for orchids.
Asks CD to telegraph a testimonial for him.
Asks CD’s help in obtaining data on finger-prints – both of ancient impressions in pottery and of living men of all races. Suggests a comparative study with similar markings of lemuroid monkeys might yield results of value about man’s origin. Gives the practical utility of prints in identification in criminal and legal studies and investigations. Encloses a form.
Seed germination.
Strange that his plants [of Megarrhiza] behaved differently from AG’s [see 12455].
On clubroot fungus of cultivated Cruciferae.
Will give Russian wheat varieties another trial.
Thanks for the honour conferred upon him by the Epping Forest Field Club.
Testimonial for S. B. J. Skertchly, stating CD’s high opinion of his work.
On instinct in insects. Intends to experiment as CD proposes.
Discusses sense of direction of cats and other animals.
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.
The debt of plant geography to voyages may be JDH’s topic at BAAS meeting [at Swansea].
Photographs from New Zealand forwarded.
No one can prove death is inevitable, but the evidence in favour of this belief is overwhelming. It is in the highest degree improbable that man should cease to follow the general law of evolution, and evolution implies successive generations, which implies death.
Leaves decision as to use of his gift to AD.