The generic name Genlisea must be preserved for Utriculariaceae with five-part calyces.
The generic name Genlisea must be preserved for Utriculariaceae with five-part calyces.
Disapproves of Huxley’s article [review of Ernst Haeckel’s Anthropogenie] in Academy [7 (1875): 16–18].
Has not heard from Mivart; CD is convinced he is a hypocrite.
Describes his views on vivisection. Cannot sign petition of F. P. Cobbe, with its attack on Rudolf Virchow.
CD would be pleased to have FBG’s essay dedicated to him but fears that he will be unable to give any assistance towards FBG’s ‘excellent scheme’.
Huxley strongly dissuades JDH from writing to Mivart because of his Presidency of Royal Society. JDH will hold his letter until he hears what Bentham says.
Has read FMM’s article in Contemporary Review [25 (1875): 305–26].
Never suspected FMM was responsible for the Quarterly Review article ["Primitive man", Q. Rev. 137 (1874): 40–77]; knows it was written by Mivart.
Encloses results of experiments on influence of snake poison on ciliary action and vegetable protoplasm.
Is not inclined to restrain himself from expressing his opinion of Mivart. Huxley’s article in Academy.
Thanks THH for his article in the Academy and his defence of CD and G. H. Darwin against Mivart. Still thinks he should write plainly to Mivart.
CD’s observations [for Insectivorous plants] seem to indicate that the same species of Genlisea may bear two kinds of bladders, so he asks for rhizomes and leaves of three species to test this possibility.
Asks DO to return enclosed post-card with locality of Genlisea aurea specimen that DO had sent.
Tyndall, T. A. Hirst and Spencer dissuade him from writing to Mivart, but he will let him feel his disapproval.
FMM discusses his reply to George Darwin’s article [see 9711].
Intends within a year to place his whole argument before CD when, he hopes, his difficulties connected with the origin of language will be carefully considered by CD.
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JDH would be rash not to follow advice of his friends. [CD’s] wife and George oppose his writing to Mivart.
Encloses report on his paper "Old age characteristics among ammonites", [Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 17 (1875): 236–41].
Stability of long inherited characters. Dependence of some recently acquired characters on the environment.
No summary available.
Thanks CD for his letter of 1 Jan 1875. Will send a paper on the genus Volvox ["Die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Gattung Volvox", Cohn Beitr. Biol. Pflanz. 1 (1875) Heft 3: 99–115].
Informs CD of his discoveries of the "house"-building capacity of Difflugia, one of the lowest forms of organism.
Sends CD his writing on Aldrovanda and Utricularia, which he is welcome to use in his forthcoming book [Insectivorous plants].
Has observed a Dionaea fertilised without insect aid.
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