Thanks for gift of bananas.
Thanks for gift of bananas.
Thanks for the offer of specimens, but cannot use them due to other work.
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Glad ASW has solved puzzle of outer seeds.
Quite agrees about great improbability of sudden transformations.
Asks for copy of report from Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404].
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Gratified by CD’s praise.
Describes plan of his new book [Island life (1880)].
Efforts to secure a post.
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Asks Newton if he knows any of the trustees of the Josiah Mason College of Science in Birmingham which is due to be opened October 1880; ARW would like to apply for a position there.
Circular letter regarding the distribution of CD’s excess income, with a note addressed to W. E. Darwin concerning his handling of Elizabeth Darwin’s share.
Thanks CD for Erasmus Darwin. Comments on it.
News of Violetta Darwin’s death.
Sends enclosure [missing], which HD is to forward to W. E. Darwin, as everyone else has seen it.
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Suggests CEF read Ernst Haeckel’s Evolution of man [1879] and Descent.
Sends some cotton seeds for CD.
"I am much obliged for your note. I have heard of the other analogous cases, but there remains a doubt whether they may not be accidental coincidences, for such cases certainly occur in non-Jewish families.––"
Plans a "Darwin Festival" to celebrate CD’s birthday.
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