Discusses spiritualism. Says Williams, the medium, is exposed as fraud.
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Discusses spiritualism. Says Williams, the medium, is exposed as fraud.
Comments on GJR’s article in Fortnightly Review ["The beginning of nerves", n.s. 24 (1878): 509–26].
Comments on "poor old" Edinburgh Review.
CD will visit tomorrow.
Comments on GJR’s anonymous book [A candid examination of theism (1878)]. Notes possible theological objections.
Sends copy of H. D. Lindemuth, "Vegetative Bastarderzeugung" [Landwirtsch. Jahrb. 7 (1878): 887–939].
Recommends article on "Brute and human intellect" by William James [J. Speculative Philos. 12 (1878): 236–78].
Notes advertisement of Tito Vignoli, Fundamentalgesetz der Intelligenz im Thierreiche [1879].
Contributes to subscription for Grant Allen.
Regrets GJR and wife could not visit.
Encloses paper [not identified] by Thomas Meehan, a very inaccurate observer.
Thanks GJR for gift of game.
Contributes to [Naples] Zoological Station.
Asks to show GJR’s letter to George Darwin and other sons. A secret cannot be well kept.
Thanks GJR for his letter, regrets pressure of other work prevents his giving GJR’s remarks the attention they deserve. GJR makes clearer how an organ that has started to decrease will go on decreasing.
Comments on Spencer’s terms.
Speaks of visiting GJR at the Brown Institution.
Invites GJR to visit.
Thanks GJR for copy of his book [Christian prayer and general laws (1874)].
Discusses breeding and sterility.
Discusses experiments to test Pangenesis. Cites useful references.
Suggests GJR visit Kew gardens.
Urges GJR to visit Hooker at Kew.
Discourages grafting ears of rabbits. Suggests comb of fowl.
Describes accounts of potato grafting in a German journal.
Is sending plants from cut-leaved vine.
Invites GJR to visit.
"When in presence of my ladies do not talk about experiments on animals."
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].