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CD has quite given up the marine theory [of Glen Roy] and has accepted glacier lakes. "Nothing makes me gnash my teeth so much as that confounded paper of mine." It is a lesson "never in science to infer one explanation is right because no other one seems possible".
Response to ARW’s "grand and memorable work" [Geographical distribution (1876)]. Most interesting part to CD is ARW’s "protest against sinking imaginary continents".
Requests chemical analysis of sample of both natural and burnt soil.
Sends analysis of burnt and unburnt samples.
Gratitude for the invaluable assistance. Is disappointed that natural soil is richer than burnt. Problem of securing sufficient chemically pure soil to test growth of plants.
References to figures of Coryanthes.
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Comments on CD’s criticism of Geographical distribution.
Plans to sell his house.
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Thanks for kindness in organising special train for Caroline Sarah Wedgwood when she was taken ill.
Asks about constituents of burnt soil.
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On burnt soils.
Delighted to hear of Frank Darwin’s discovery.
Seems hopeless to reason with people about vivisection.
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CD thanks the editor of a picture book "for … the photographs of your striking pictures, & for the honour which you have done me by the introduction of my name and likeness into one of them".
Thanks for his interesting essay on insectivorous plants.