Sends dirt residue of chalk samples for David Forbes to examine.
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Sends dirt residue of chalk samples for David Forbes to examine.
Is delighted to receive expression. Some comments on swallowing and scratching. Asks to be sent reviews.
Experiments with Mimosa.
Experiments on Mimosa; effects of immersion.
Experiments on Mimosa.
Has visited Alford and Beesby.
Sends references on Utricularia and Pinguicula.
WED encloses a letter from H. M. Wilkinson about Utricularia and sundew.
H. M. Wilkinson has examined bladders of Utricularia; doubts that they absorb or digest insects.
H. M. Wilkinson describes dragonfly trapped by sundew [Drosera].
Will write to Strickland. Asks whether name has already been put down for Athenaeum.
Sent a copy of Orchis book to Gentry. Mentions Morley’s article on Diderot. Asks for another copy of the new edition of Descent.
Asks CD whether it is worth sending money to prop up the Index.
Returns agreement signed and witnessed.
Will discuss with CD at Christmas the possibility of purchasing some land with delapidated housing.
Sends some money on behalf of himself and his father to help with FEA’s problems with the Index.
Purchases cigarettes for CD.
Sends a pamphlet for FD and Ruck, who did not turn up for breakfast.
Recommends that CD buy a plot of land.
Discussing a purchase of land.
Pleased to hear about GHD’s paper at the Royal Society.
Thanks for the copy of Orchids.
Staying with W. D. Fox on the Isle of Wight. Offers to find Pulmonaria plants.