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Asks CD to sign papers for Royal Society candidacy of W. B. Clarke.
Comments on R. L. Tait’s claimed isolation of digestive ferments from Nepenthes.
Abstract sent to the Royal Society. It seems to CD "uncommonly clear and well-done".
E. R. Lankester is in danger of being black-balled for admission to the Linnean Society; Thiselton-Dyer is in the midst of the fight.
CD’s letter from Tiflis is not in Russian but Georgian.
Sends thanks for CD’s help in making him a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Dyer has sent some Erinem.
S. C. Malan, Rector of Broadwindsor, could translate Georgian letter from Tiflis.
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Comments on AW’s essay [on "Axolotl", Z. Wiss. Zool. 25 (suppl.) (1875): 297–342] with respect to evolutionary reversion. Peloric flowers must also be considered reversion.
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Sends Linnean papers.
He will repeat his experiments on the cat’s sense of smell.
The intelligence of rats is shown by their gnawing through lead pipes to find water.
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Reports on various observations and experiments: a duck–fowl hybrid with queer habits,
three cases of man–dog hybrids,
his interarching vine experiments,
and orange scale.
Strongly disapproves of the blackballing of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society. States the reasons for his disapproval and hopes they will be considered.
CD is furious at the prospect of Lankester’s being black-balled by the Linnean Society. He plans to solicit support from various members and to come up with Frank for the voting.
[The black-balling of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society] is a most scandalous shame. Will arrange for his own admission to fellowship of the Society.