From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Oct 1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 45
Summary:
FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.
Edwin Ray Lankester wants to reprint FD’s paper ‘Food bodies’ in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.
Forwards letters.
Lists the tasks he has completed; sends on letter from Romanes; news of Bernard.
Asks FD to mollify Daniel Oliver and assure him that CD asks "only for what I wd. give my life’s blood for".
Asks FD to forward some eczema mixture to Southampton for him
and to hunt out notes on earthworm activity at Beaulieu Abbey.
Agrees to propose GJR for membership in Royal Society.
Remarks on GJR’s paper on Medusae [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 167 (1877): 659–752].
Discusses planting onions for experiment.