His Dytiscus fact interesting. Indispensable to know name of shell. Case worth communicating to Nature. [See "On the dispersal of freshwater bivalves", Nature 6 April 1882, pp. 529–30.]
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His Dytiscus fact interesting. Indispensable to know name of shell. Case worth communicating to Nature. [See "On the dispersal of freshwater bivalves", Nature 6 April 1882, pp. 529–30.]
Will send shell by post to British Museum. Will prepare article for Nature [see 13696].
Shell smashed by careless servant. May have been Cyclas cornea. Will send letter to Nature.
Will send letter to Nature about shell [attached to beetle]. Will use old name of Cyclas.
Glad to receive the German edition of Erasmus Darwin. Hopes sales will be good. Favourable review has appeared in the United States, in the Nation.
Profit on Erasmus Darwin is £9 15s 5d. Sends cheque. 218 copies remain unsold.
All his advisers agree that CD ought not to take notice of Butler’s attack.
F. M. Balfour has offered to translate EK’s reply to Butler and to send it to Nature. [The letter was published in Nature 23 (1881): 288.]
Asks further questions about shell attached to beetle’s leg.
According to John Gwyn Jeffreys’ book [British conchology (1862–9)] shell is Sphaerium corneum, a synonym of Cyclas cornea.