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Lack of success in breeding horses in Bengal is related to damp climate. Encloses letter from F. G. Ravenhill concerning an unpublished report by the Stud Commission on animal breeds in Bengal.
Sends an address by Dr Erasmus Darwin [to the Derby Philosophical Society].
Last minute checking of some quotations has delayed his translation [of Erasmus Darwin].
Thanks for present and letter.
Wishes a good trip to the lakes and sends love to family members.
CD elected honorary member of the Royal Society of New South Wales.
Experiments to determine mechanism of tendril curvature; importance of variations in cell turgidity. Contraction in roots caused by increased turgor.
Hopes CD will read and comment on his lecture ["Origin of flora of the Alps", Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. (1879)]. Disgrees with CD; JB maintains that the high antiquity of existing plant genera and families explains wide differences in their distribution.
His experiments on nutrition of Utricularia are not sufficiently exact or complete to allow them to be published. He will resume experimentation and report to CD.
Crossbreeding experiments with geese.
JD communicates, after seven years, news of a new "sport" of Pelargonium, sterile both with other varieties and with the mother plant, thus indicating that it is possibly a new species.
Regards his part only as material from which CD can select for English edition of Erasmus Darwin.
Regrets dropping comment on Erasmus Darwin’s evolutionary theory.
Asks for translation of British plant names.
Asks CD not to mention in introduction that EK’s part has been reduced.
WSD sent MS of his translation of Erasmus Darwin on 6 August. Hopes CD received all of it.
Sends proofs [of "The shell mounds of Omori, Japan", Tokyo Univ. Mem. 1 (1879)], which may interest CD for the changes between ancient and modern forms.
He has no cause to complain at CD’s suppression of parts of his translation. Will do his best to correct and improve the proofs.
Requests a letter of introduction to Prof. Jowett for his son, who is entering Balliol College.
Accepts invitation to visit Down.
Describes travel plans in Scotland.