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Advise against making any reply to Samuel Butler’s charges.
Has shown S. Butler’s Athenæum letter to Frederick Pollock, who confirms RBL’s advice that it needs no answer. Sends an imaginary response by Butler.
WZS, 12-year-old pupil, asks where he can find answer to question of what causes different shades of colour in inhabitants of earth.
Germination of Megarrhiza. AG’s observations at variance with CD’s.
Has read Butler’s letter and CD’s draft reply and Litchfield’s letter. Has no hesitation in saying CD should take no notice. Litchfield’s advice is judicious.
Thinks Huxley’s judgment on answering S. Butler’s charges would be trustworthy, though THH is horribly pugnacious and would naturally be for fighting.
Since CD has decided not to answer S. Butler’s charge, WSD will not reply either.
Will look over Francis Darwin’s lecture ["Climbing plants"] with a view to publishing it in Popular Science Review [19 (1880): 213–29].
Thinks CD has no need to reply to Samuel Butler’s hostile article [in the Athenæum]. Offers to reply himself.
Thinks Herbert Spencer has done little service to science but a great service to thinking.
Thinks importance of mathematics overestimated [by J. F. Moulton] in criticising Spencer.
Returns [Butler’s] attack, which he forgot to send yesterday.
Sends birthday wishes.
Discusses work on Medusae.
Recalls visit to Down.
Describes formation of student nature study club at the University of Jena. Sends birthday greetings from the club.
"Dia" [as a prefix] means "through, across".
WED’s wife would like to meet the Huxleys.
Birthday greetings.
Regrets Butler’s malicious attack.
Sends birthday greetings
and the good news of a subvention for the Zoological Station received from the German government. There are now 20 naturalists working at the Station.
It might be possible to borrow £500 [for potato experiments]. Variety of "The Champion" spreading over the Kingdom. Champion lately less able to produce.
At the inaugural meeting of the Epping Forest & Essex Naturalists’ Field Club, CD was elected an Honorary Member.
Has been at work on Orchideae for Genera plantarum and has found CD’s Orchids wonderfully useful. Comments on some problems of botanical terminology.
Asks CD’s help in obtaining data on finger-prints – both of ancient impressions in pottery and of living men of all races. Suggests a comparative study with similar markings of lemuroid monkeys might yield results of value about man’s origin. Gives the practical utility of prints in identification in criminal and legal studies and investigations. Encloses a form.
Agrees not to reply to Butler.
