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Sends condolences on the death of E. A. Darwin. LBBD was a schoolfellow at Shrewsbury.
Condolences on the death of E. A. Darwin.
Not intended to call vivisection article a symposium [Nineteenth Century 10 (1881): 920–48].
Sympathy on death of Erasmus Darwin.
Trying some experiments with bees to test their direction-finding methods.
Discusses some of his observations on the sleep movement in plants. Has been studying the leaflets of Crotalaria; has discovered they move to face the setting sun.
Gives an account of the reception of his paper at York [BAAS meeting].
Comte de Paris requests an orchid from CD for his huge collection.
JDH responds to CD’s criticism of York address.
Arruda Furtado could work on mystery of buried cypress trunks in the Azores.
Condolences on death of Erasmus.
Thanks for gift of Movement in plants.
Plans botanical research in Brazil.
Hermann von Jhering is conducting experiments on snakes.
WB obliged to work as newspaper correspondent.
Plans breeding experiments on dimorphic plants.
Has found the missing packet of forks, which he will send or take to Down.
Only 270 copies of Movement in plants remain. Suggests printing another 250 and then breaking up type. If CD agrees, has he any corrections?
Sends a copy of Earthworms.
Reports that a living frog was found in a lump of coal.
Observed a beetle carrying a long worm.
Sending some Hudson’s Bay mosquitoes because of a letter of CD’s quoted in Evening Standard, 5 Sept 1881.
Hopes Anthony Rich will keep to his intention of leaving his fortune to CD, despite CD’s increased wealth.
His BAAS address at York in Nature ["The rise and progress of palaeontology" 24 (1881): 452–5].
Drafting new will as CD requested.
Sends preserved pitchers and figure of Dischidia rafflesiana, a rare plant from East Bengal, which GK and the late John Scott had tried in vain to cultivate.
JBI’s observations on bees and wasps. The hexagonal cells made by solitary queen wasps do not fit explanation in Origin.
Nathan Hubbersty [of Cambridge days] is very ill.
Details of new will. 12/74ths to each son and 7/74ths to each daughter.
Did not intend his last letter as criticism. Is sure CD would not "wriggle out" of a difficulty if he had observed it.
Sends CD a wasps’ nest.