Enlists CD’s support for a marine biological research institution to be built soon on Jersey.
Showing 41–50 of 50 items
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).