Discusses the value of a vegetable diet.
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Discusses the value of a vegetable diet.
CAL’s letter [see 11885] would not be printed by the Geological Society as it is too speculative and has no new information.
Encloses his photograph.
Thanks for book [Duchartre, Éléments de botanique].
Frank [Darwin] has found a Trifolium remarkable for "bloom", but it was not in flower. If GHD knows where it grows, could he dig up the whole plant?
Details of publications by G. H. Darwin.
Thanks for sending him work on the skull.
Is applying for the Chair of Botany at Edinburgh and asks CD for a testimonial.
A founding member of the Royal Agricultural Society sends information on the specificity of sheep varieties to soil types.
Sends results of the first year’s experiments with the Russian wheat varieties sent by CD [see 11483].
Sleep movements in Oxalis acetosella.
CD has read several papers by E. Perceval Wright and has a high opinion of his abilities and great zeal for natural science.
Has already written a testimonial for [?William Ramsay] McNab as Professor of Botany. Hence what he can write for EPW will not be of much use.
Can FG come to lunch on Monday?
Sorry FG has not been well and is soon going abroad.
Astonished at circular and will risk revolutions to invest. Describes Blidah, Algeria.
Thanks CD [for his increased allowance?].
Writes of his tour [in Algeria].
Sends family news;
describes what remains of his "menagerie" and tells of his interest in the framework of his son’s German badger-hound.
Encloses a letter [from Fritz Müller, see 11839] which "eminently deserves to be published in Nature". Discusses the form and illustration needed. Spelling problems to be referred to Robert McLachlan.
CD elected an honorary member of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Has sent FM’s letter on caddis-fly to Nature ["On a frog and caddis-flies", Nature 19 (1879): 462–4].
Thanks LAE for publication [Errera and G. Gevaert, Sur la structure et les modes de fécondation des fleurs, 1ère partie (1878)].