Thanks JM for sending Drosera specimens.
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Thanks JM for sending Drosera specimens.
FBG greatly interested in CD’s article ["Fertility of hybrids from the Chinese and common goose"] but has not altered his opinion on the matter.
Pleased by favourable English newspaper reviews of Erasmus Darwin. Charles Reinwald has not yet said whether he wants to use annotations intended for German readers.
Thanks for gift of bananas.
Thanks for the offer of specimens, but cannot use them due to other work.
Glad ASW has solved puzzle of outer seeds.
Quite agrees about great improbability of sudden transformations.
Asks for copy of report from Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404].
Gratified by CD’s praise.
Describes plan of his new book [Island life (1880)].
Efforts to secure a post.
Circular letter regarding the distribution of CD’s excess income, with a note addressed to W. E. Darwin concerning his handling of Elizabeth Darwin’s share.
Thanks CD for Erasmus Darwin. Comments on it.
News of Violetta Darwin’s death.
Sends enclosure [missing], which HD is to forward to W. E. Darwin, as everyone else has seen it.
Suggests CEF read Ernst Haeckel’s Evolution of man [1879] and Descent.
Sends some cotton seeds for CD.
"I am much obliged for your note. I have heard of the other analogous cases, but there remains a doubt whether they may not be accidental coincidences, for such cases certainly occur in non-Jewish families.––"
Plans a "Darwin Festival" to celebrate CD’s birthday.
Responds to article in Nature on the sexual colours of butterflies [Collected papers 2: 220–2].
The honour RLT proposes [Darwin Festival] is a great one, "but would it not be better to wait until I am in my grave?"
Sends a seedling Drosera capensis.
CD’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, must have published on arsenic, as his father never published on medical subjects.
The violent stranding of floating ice as first mentioned in CD’s article ["Ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire", Collected papers 1: 163–71] is the most remarkable of the Moel Tryfan phenomena.
Sends copy of Kosmos [containing Krause’s article on Erasmus Darwin].
Believes he can spare an Erasmus Darwin letter.