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.
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 his children for their present of a fur coat.
Enjoyed his visit to Down.
Thanks FD for criticisms [of Movement in plants]. J. D. Hooker was interested in the observations of movement in Desmodium.
Are there old furrowed fields on hillsides in N. Wales, if so can FD look for earthworm activity?
Discusses corrections [to Movement in plants]. Has dispatched chapter nine.
Dispatches a chapter [of Movement in plants] for FD to look over.
Thanks for information about the property in question [Tromer Lodge, see 12842]. His father, Robert Ainslie, had protested a settlement made in an earlier transaction.
FD’s abstract ["Physiology of plants", Nature 23 (1880): 178–81] is excellent, and as clear as daylight.
The Duke of Argyll has written to Gladstone in support of a pension for A. R. Wallace.