Has read JT’s address ["Science and man", The Times, 2 October 1877, p. 8]. What JT says about CD honours and pleases him. JT’s short character of Faraday is beautiful.
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Has read JT’s address ["Science and man", The Times, 2 October 1877, p. 8]. What JT says about CD honours and pleases him. JT’s short character of Faraday is beautiful.
JBI reports that the editor of Journal of Horticulture has identified the tree at Loch Carron as Sambucus racemosa, red-berried elder.
Welcomes JDH home from American expedition.
Loss of water from leaf surfaces; action of a still air layer.
Proposal for CD’s LL.D.
Sends plant specimens for CD’s examination for genetic affinity with Drosera rotundifolia
Accepts CD’s offer to send numbers of Kosmos.
WEG thinks the evidence from Homer’s text is conclusive that his "discrimination of colour was as defective as his sense of form and of motion was exact and lively".
Sends seeds of plants for CD to elucidate floral anatomy.
Asks for key and letter to be sent to him at the New University Club in London.
Returns [unspecified] enclosure.
Enlists CD’s support for a marine biological research institution to be built soon on Jersey.
CD awarded honorary LL.D. degree by Cambridge University. [See 11212.]
Requests seeds for experiments he and Frank are doing on automatic movements of cotyledons.
Writes again about arrangements for the honorary degree ceremony.
Has been working on tides, which he is almost certain have altered the obliquity of the ecliptic.
Sends extract reporting elephants that get drunk on a plant.
Gives a detailed description of the "Colorado Giant" found near Pueblo, alleged to be a fossil man with a tail. [See also 11272.]
Has given dates [for the Cambridge University honorary degree] to the Vice-Chancellor.
His father thanks WMM for his letter about the elephant case [see 11214]. If the story is true, CD thinks that the fruit must contain some alkaloid such as that in Indian hemp.
FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.
CD has made clear that in Cross and self-fertilisation he had not intended to suggest that autogamie (fertilisation of a flower by its own pollen) is superior to gitonogamie (fertilisation of a flower by one on the same plant).