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Sends the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union’s publications prior to the visit to Down of its deputation.
If every copy [of Movement in plants] is sold at 15s, CD will lose about £50.
Thanks CD for his reply to her letter.
Offers to send him a copy of her book on her expedition to Patagonia [Across Patagonia (1880)].
Six hundred copies of Movement in plants were wanted [at Murray’s annual sale] – a good start.
Lectured on mental evolution in Newcastle.
Has conducted interesting research on locomotor systems of echinoderms.
He has observed several instances of animals’ tails lying to the left in rigor mortis. Is this a general rule?
Has spoken to Wallace to see if reluctant to accept a Government pension. He would accept if CD and Huxley believe it justified. Encloses details of Wallace’s efforts to obtain a position as naturalist and his claims for a pension.
No summary available.
Explains delay in printing proofs [of Movement in plants?].
Response to CD’s notes [on Island life]:
1. On relation of paucity of fossils to coldness of water;
2. Cessation of the glacial period;
3. Rate of deposit and geological time;
4. The importance of preoccupation (by plants) in relation to plants arriving later.
Charge of speculative explanations is just.
Defends plausibility of migration of plants from mountain to mountain.
No summary available.
Movement in plants needs only the index. Distressed by CD’s dissatisfaction with the indexer.
Eight hundred copies have now been sold. Type will be kept up.
Decision on printing additional copies should await reviews.
Sorry he forgot the gardener’s address. Having a very nice time in Cambridge, and is almost finished the bramble paper. Drawing room is upside down, so living in Horace’s working room and dining room. Greek question was lost in the Senate House. George dined there last night. Too muddy to bicycle. Has some stuff for spectacles.
Has found three zones of stones in the Welsh and Pennine mountains which he accounts for by elevation and subsidence. Does CD think that these movements in historical times have been caused by earthquakes or by slow and gradual movements?
Reports inability to control depressor anguli oris muscle in grief.
Has read Expression.
Sends a copy of his lecture Elemental pathology: an address on elemental pathology delivered in the pathological section of the British Medical Association (Paget 1880).
Is collecting annual subscriptions for the support of J[emmy] FitzRoy Button. Has only just been told of the death of Miss [Sarah Elizabeth] Wedgwood.
Gives news of some former Beagle crew members.
Sends proofs of Encyclopaedia Britannica article on hybridism [9th ed., 12: 422–6]. Can CD mention authorities who should be cited?
Asks CD to sign his guarantee.
Reports events at Cambridge involving Horace.
Will support the petition for a pension for Wallace.
CD’s paragraph [about Wyville Thomson, see 12796] was so good that if he had written it he would have sent it to the printer, but [for CD] it is best to refrain.