Letter of introduction for V. O. Kovalevsky.
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Letter of introduction for V. O. Kovalevsky.
Gladstone has recommended yearly pension of £200 for Wallace.
Good news from Gladstone [concerning pension for Wallace]. Duke of Argyll’s private note greatly influenced Gladstone.
Has heard that Gladstone will recommend A. R. [Wallace] for a pension. Thanks the Duke for having written to Gladstone on the matter.
CD expresses his great pleasure at WEG’s letter informing him that Wallace has been granted a pension.
Sends photograph.
Success of the memorial for Wallace. Sends letter from Gladstone.
Congratulates THH on appointment as Inspector of Fisheries.
CD thanks correspondent for her "very elegant work" – a book on nature.
Informs ARW of favourable reception by Gladstone of memorial respecting ARW’s services to science, and the establishment of a pension for him.
Announces the resolution passed by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s conference of 7 Jan 1881.
Congratulates CD on success of Wallace memorial.
Butler has attacked again.
CD may choose where to publish EK’s reply to Butler. Would prefer Athenæum. Thinks it better that CD not reply himself.
Report on the progress of his experiments with potatoes; some varieties spoilt by an apparently hereditary disease.
Appreciation of CD’s efforts in recommending him for pension. Asks about proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.
Thanks for CD’s offer of assistance after flood damage.
Comments on Movement in plants. Discusses sleep movements and paraheliotropism of Maranta and other plants.
Describes the fertilisation of figs by Hymenoptera.
Sends proofs of lectures he intends to reprint as a book [The Bible and science (1881)]; asks CD if he would check one for errors.
Suggests an errata slip for preface to Erasmus Darwin would correct the inaccurate statement regarding publication of Butler’s Evolution old and new.
All his advisers agree that CD ought not to take notice of Butler’s attack.
F. M. Balfour has offered to translate EK’s reply to Butler and to send it to Nature. [The letter was published in Nature 23 (1881): 288.]
The Darwin family cannot agree on what CD should do about Butler’s charges [in Unconscious memory]. CD has commissioned HEL to ask LS’s advice. She sends an account of the affair with background materials.
Wants a letter of introduction to Joseph Fayrer.