Thanks GJR for his letter, regrets pressure of other work prevents his giving GJR’s remarks the attention they deserve. GJR makes clearer how an organ that has started to decrease will go on decreasing.
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Thanks GJR for his letter, regrets pressure of other work prevents his giving GJR’s remarks the attention they deserve. GJR makes clearer how an organ that has started to decrease will go on decreasing.
Comments on Spencer’s terms.
Speaks of visiting GJR at the Brown Institution.
Invites GJR to visit.
Thanks GJR for copy of his book [Christian prayer and general laws (1874)].
Discusses breeding and sterility.
Discusses experiments to test Pangenesis. Cites useful references.
Suggests GJR visit Kew gardens.
Urges GJR to visit Hooker at Kew.
Discourages grafting ears of rabbits. Suggests comb of fowl.
Describes accounts of potato grafting in a German journal.
Is sending plants from cut-leaved vine.
Invites GJR to visit.
"When in presence of my ladies do not talk about experiments on animals."
Discusses revisions for Variation, 2d ed.
Discusses experiments involving graft-hybrids.
Alludes to Pangenesis.
Comments on GJR’s experiments.
Will propose GJR for membership in Linnean Society.
Discusses GJR’s grafting experiments.
CD is circulating certificate proposing GJR for membership in Linnean Society.
Discusses hybrid potatoes from Germany.
Mentions his appearance before Vivisection Commission.
Discusses his plans for planting and observing the carrots sent by GJR.
Mentions views of J. S. Burdon Sanderson on graft-hybrids.
Comments on GJR’s paper ["Instinct and acquisition", Nature 12 (1875): 553–4].
[Letter incorrectly dated "Thursday 8th" by CD.] [!? shd be note not synopsis]
Carrots have arrived; CD has potted them.
Suggests skin-grafting experiment on birds.
Discusses case of Edwin Ray Lankester; it has aroused his indignation.
Sends books.
Discusses GJR’s Pangenesis experiments; views of Galton on the theory.
Mentions receiving GJR’s paper on Medusae [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 524–31].
Will call on GJR in London.
Asks to show GJR’s letter to George Darwin and other sons. A secret cannot be well kept.
Trip to London delayed.