Sends some additions and corrections he has made in the 5th thousand, [of Earthworms] now being printed.
Describes experiment in which Euphorbia and Drosophyllum roots were exposed to ammonium carbonate solution. Asks SHV’s opinion.
Has no objection to Édouard Heckel’s preface to the French translation of Movement in Plants.
Sends some additions for the French translation of Earthworms.
Wouls like a copy of the French translation of Movement in Plants sent to Gaston de Saporta, Charles Frédéric Martins and Charles Victor Naudin.
Writes regarding subscription to set up the Science Defence and Advancement Fund to protect investigators from anti-vivisectionists and to promote knowledge of the purpose and importance of vivisection.
Offers for sale a MS of lost Erasmus Darwin poem on materialism [Francis Darwin note: "Swindle"].
Thanks CD for support in his election as Linacre Professor at Oxford.
J. Y. Buchanan, of the Challenger, says deep-sea red mud is fine because, like CD’s vegetable mould, it has been digested by worms and echinoderms.
Visited by John MacNeile Price, the son of CD’s friend from Chile, Mr Price; the son is now Surveyor General of Hong Kong.
Regrets that he cannot write the requested journal article on comparative anatomy.
Hopes EFG pursues more worthy object than collecting autographs.
An enclosure for CD has arrived from the Academy of Sciences in Vienna: please can CD send a postal order for 4s.
Instructions to send parcel to Orpington Station, S.E.R.
BJS is looking forward to reading the life of Lyell [K. M. Lyell, Life, letters and journals of Sir Charles Lyell, 2 vols. (1881)].
Sends specimen of soil and buried clay.
Has much pleasure in signing the little book; is glad his book on earthworms interested her.
Draft letter for Francis Darwin to write to JCC thanking him for the soil specimen.
Reports on the greener grass and the worm-castings found on the lines, which contain lime, of tennis courts.
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