Thanks VOK for the Russian tea.
Rejoices at his prosperity and appointment at Moscow [Associate Professor, Moscow University, 1880–3].
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Thanks VOK for the Russian tea.
Rejoices at his prosperity and appointment at Moscow [Associate Professor, Moscow University, 1880–3].
On land migration of plants. The case in Nature is striking but CD doubts that seeds of plants could be blown from mountains of Abyssinia to mountains of Madagascar.
Alarm over Wallace’s memorial; asks HWB if he has received it and forwarded it to Hooker. Wanted to get it to Gladstone before Parliament met.
About the distribution of [surplus income] funds among the children.
Thanks WED for some earthworm observations.
Discusses investments.
Memorial for Wallace pension dispatched to W. E. Gladstone.
Covering letter to enclose a memorial [petitioning for a civil list pension for Wallace].
CD is pleased with EK’s account in Kosmos [8 (1880–1): 321–2] of the Buffon and Coleridge passage [cited by Samuel Butler, see 12939, 12969]. Would like a translation published in England, but Butler seeks notoriety and would make unscrupulous use of it. Will ask advice. Thinks EK’s letter to Popular Science Monthly, just received, an excellent reply to Butler.
Seeks R. B. Litchfield’s advice about publishing a translation of a letter and article by E. Krause [answering Samuel Butler’s Unconscious memory].
T. H. Farrer and James Caird express great interest in JT’s report. Have instructed CD to hold £90 for use by JT in spring. Caird asks that potatoes be sent to his gardener for trials.
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.
Congratulates CD on success of Wallace memorial.
Butler has attacked again.