Sends enclosure [missing], which HD is to forward to W. E. Darwin, as everyone else has seen it.
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Sends enclosure [missing], which HD is to forward to W. E. Darwin, as everyone else has seen it.
"I am much obliged for your note. I have heard of the other analogous cases, but there remains a doubt whether they may not be accidental coincidences, for such cases certainly occur in non-Jewish families.––"
The honour RLT proposes [Darwin Festival] is a great one, "but would it not be better to wait until I am in my grave?"
CD’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, must have published on arsenic, as his father never published on medical subjects.
Thanks for cotton seeds.
Germination of Megarrhiza.
Sends copy of Kosmos [containing Krause’s article on Erasmus Darwin].
Believes he can spare an Erasmus Darwin letter.
Thanks his children for their present of a fur coat.
Suspects WTT-D is the author of a good review of Erasmus Darwin in Nature [21 (1880): 245–7].
Describes the germination and early growth of Megarrhiza about which AG has been misinformed. The tubular petioles act functionally like a root.
Ipomoea did not germinate.
Replies to EK’s queries about German translation of CD’s preface to Erasmus Darwin.
Germination of Delphinium and Megarrhiza.
Thanks EH for copy of book [Das System der Medusen (1879)].
Asa Gray wants seeds of a variety of cotton known as vine cotton.
Sorry to hear of his illness.
On his visit to J. F. McLennan, GHD might tell him that CD thinks A. R. Wallace would work up McLennan’s materials conscientiously.
Thanks for letter of 18th January 1880 and for present of Essays. Interested in Welcker’s investigation of the 'ligamentum teres', and his comment on the feet of the Chinese.
Will esteem it an honour if Welcker dedicates his next book to him.
Comments on JHF’s book [Souvenirs entomologiques (1879)].
Discusses story told by Erasmus Darwin about a wasp cutting off wings of fly.
Sorry JHF is opposed to descent theory.
Suggests experiment concerning insects’ sense of direction.
Sends the Litchfields two drafts of a letter in reply to Samuel Butler’s letter to the Athenæum; hopes for their approval.
Can well understand WN’s new life. WN’s departure a heavy loss.
Asks THH to advise him about a response to Samuel Butler’s attack accusing CD of dishonesty. Quotes the advice of others but will do what THH advises.
Thanks RBL for advice [concerning dispute with Samuel Butler]. Notes reaction of family.