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Has CD made arrangements with D. Appleton for Movement in plants? CD’s instructions about the index have been forwarded.
Observations on earthworms.
Reports evidence of earthworm activity.
Thanks for letter, which made up for difficulty of his speech [at BAAS meeting, Swansea].
Has met Horace Darwin and wife;
climbed Matterhorn.
An extract from a life of Kepler about the motions of Mars.
Sends four wrist bands, and advice on putting them on. George is well. Can easily get worm castings. Lilly and Mlle Wild arrived in a storm to stay the night. Is much amused by Sedgwick’s ferocious letter about Vestiges.
Would be glad to have a set of plates for Movement in plants.
Will be happy to translate CD’s new book [Movement in plants]. Asks how large the book will be.
Sends his paper ["Oceans and continents", Geol. Mag. 7 (1880): 385–91].
Thinks John Murray of Edinburgh goes out of his way to deny an elevation/subsidence view of coral reefs ["On the structure and origin of coral reefs and islands", Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 10 (1878–80): 505–18].
Invitation to an address by T. H. Huxley at Josiah Mason's Science College in Birmingham.
Supervising French translation of Movement in plants. Why does not CD consider spontaneous movements of flower parts, which EMH sees also as circumnutation?
Can Alphonse de Candolle see CD?
Asa Gray at Kew; will meet JDH in Italy in December.
Asks whether CD would care to preface the letter of Burt G. Wilder which he forwarded for publication ["Two kinds of vivisection", Nature 22 (1880): 517–18].
Encloses statement of U. S. sales of CD’s works to 1 Aug 1880 and a cheque for the balance due to CD.
Has raised about 500 varieties out of the crop of the second generation comprising about 1500 varieties. Growers report immense yield and no disease. Doubts if variety free of disease will live for ever. New varieties must be continually coming into existence.
Sends two preserved pigs (showing some hereditary phenomenon) that the late John Scott intended for CD.
King has all of Scott’s papers.
Leaves Kew the next day for three or four months of travel.
