Germination and root of Ipomoea.
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Germination and root of Ipomoea.
Is keeping down his expenditure; has some landowners growing potatoes for him.
Sends a poem he has composed in honour of CD.
Describes studies with Ernst Haeckel
and research on psychology of lower animals.
Sends book [Der thierische Wille (1880)] and describes his views on the subject.
Impoverished German doctor asks for money.
CD thanks the author for the copy of Der thierische Wille.
Thanks for interesting letter; is sure it would be worth while to test fertility of illegitimate offspring of heterostyled plants.
Would welcome any information on occurrence of bloom-covered leaves on dry plains.
Encloses a letter from Volney Rattan of California.
Thanks for cheque.
Wants to see CD.
Discusses a book
and the "splendid news about the elections".
No summary available.
Is beginning Geikie’s Ice age. Describes flints found on the common. Comments on exciting election.
Encloses letter [see 12488] and circular from Henry Faulds [regarding thumb impressions]. Anthropology Institute may care about it.
Has received CD’s acknowledgment, through Ernest De La Rue, for the copy he sent of Jungle life [in India (1880)].
Offers to collect material for CD on his return to India.
Will see what can be done about getting thumb impressions, to see if the markings are persistent.
Seeks testimonial, as he is applying for the Keepership of Geology at the British Museum.
W. D. Fox’s sufferings have ended; he died that morning.
[Copy erroneously dated March.]
Has forwarded ESM’s letter to Nature ["Omori shell mounds", Collected papers 2: 222–3].
Forwards a letter from E. S. Morse on Omori shell mounds refuting F. V. Dickins’ review [Nature 21 (1880): 350] of Morse’s memoir ["The shell mounds of Omori", Mem. Sci. Dep. Univ. Tokyo 1 (1879) pt 1].
Condolences upon the death of CWF’s father, William Darwin Fox.
[Wrongly dated March by CD.]