Is delighted to receive expression. Some comments on swallowing and scratching. Asks to be sent reviews.
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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
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.
Asks WED to visit Winchester soon and collect Utricularia for him
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].
Arrangements for the visit to Southampton.
About elections to [an unspecified] club.
Will write to Strickland. Asks whether name has already been put down for Athenaeum.
Another message about club elections.
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.
Thanks WED for his letter of 20 December 1875. Is surprised and delighted by the support from WED and CD for the Index.
Purchases cigarettes for CD.
Sends some cash to help WED with moving expenses.
Sends a pamphlet for FD and Ruck, who did not turn up for breakfast.