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Thanks for evolution article; would like to know what made Lamarck "change his front" so completely.
Comments on publication of his Atlas der Botanik [1878]. Discusses possible English edition. Draws CD’s attention to plates of Drosera in Atlas. Mentions contribution offered by Hermann Müller, and support by German professors of botany.
Has received interesting essay from August Weismann on sexual selection in daphnoids [“Schmuckfarben der Daphnoiden”, Z. Wiss. Zool. (1878)].
Would like to read Weismann’s essay on Daphnidae.
Fritz Müller’s paper on odours emitted by butterflies was read at last Entomological Society meeting.
Thanks AD-P for his magnificent Atlas; hopes it will find an English publisher. Suggests Longman & Co.
Sends two pages from MS chapter on instinct. Presumes it is too late for chapter to be of use to GJR.
After train ride Baby [Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin] calls every vehicle "boo boo".
Has been observing the movements of leaves and cotyledons; sleep movements are exaggerated circumnutation. Reports some odd observations on movement in Oxalis species.
Comments on positive response to publication [of Atlas]. CD’s approval will help make an English edition possible. Rejects suggestion that CD should subscribe.
Thanks for permission to use CD’s observations on instinct. Would like to use CD’s MS chapter in preparing forthcoming book [Mental evolution in animals (1883)].
Movements of cotyledons of Oxalis.
Francis Darwin at Würzburg with Julius Sachs.
GJR may have CD’s MS chapter on instinct. It was abstracted for Origin, but CD probably will not prepare it for publication.
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Thanks for bananas.
Will rejoice when Joseph Dalton Hooker is no longer burdened by his Royal Society duties.
Thanks for permission to use CD’s MS chapter on instinct for forthcoming book.
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Describes his talk with Julius von Sachs about canary-grass.
Seeks CD’s support for W. C. M’Intosh, candidate for Chair in Natural History at Aberdeen.
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