Congratulates CD on the Anthony Rich bequest.
Sad but relieved to retire as President of the Royal Society.
Describes battle with Treasury over use of an empty house at Kew.
Congratulates CD on the Anthony Rich bequest.
Sad but relieved to retire as President of the Royal Society.
Describes battle with Treasury over use of an empty house at Kew.
Is glad book progresses; answers translation query.
Francis Darwin does not have time to lecture.
Congratulates JT on success in breeding potato varieties.
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Thanks WO for advice and assistance for his son, Horace.
Has read Kerner’s book [see 11666]; finds the translation "as clear as daylight" but fears it is too good for the English public who like "very washy food".
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Waiting for frost to go so experiments can start again.
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Revision of CD’s will to reflect Anthony Rich’s gift and to increase daughters’ inheritance.
Relates dream suggesting CD’s belief in spiritualism. Asks if Wallace is clairvoyant.
Thanks for GdeS’s Le monde des plantes [1879].
CD has just read "Végétation polaire" [C. R. Congr. Int. Sci. Geogr. 1 (1878): 197–242] with interest. Hooker gave it conspicuous place in his Royal Society Address (1878).
Returns the siren; the plants "ill luck to them, are not sensitive to aerial vibrations". Is ashamed of his blunder.