GH no longer believes in the value of cross-fertilisation in plants.
GH no longer believes in the value of cross-fertilisation in plants.
Birthday congratulations from the editors of Kosmos. They will mark the occasion with a special number of Kosmos.
Sends birthday wishes.
Comments on progress of CD’s theory in Germany. Mentions opposition of Rudolf Virchow and his reply Freie Wissenschaft und freie Lehre [1878].
Describes research trip to Brittany and Normandy.
Research on Challenger Radiolaria.
Thanks KA and the other editors of Kosmos for the issue published in honour of his birthday. Sees there is much in it that will interest him greatly.
Birthday greetings.
Thanks ADeB for sending him Botanische Zeitung, but asks him to send it no more, as CD takes it regularly and has procured the volumes from the beginning.
Disagrees with GH over the value of cross-fertilisation.
Has sent copy of his new book, Colour-sense [1879]; in anticipation of criticism, he justifies his reliance on recorded observations rather than experiments, by the heavy demands of his career as a journalist.
Encloses HWB’s Royal Society certificate with seven signatures, which CD thinks is ample.
Birthday wishes.
Thanks for birthday greetings.
Can give no information. Has never read works of Aristotle, but has unbounded respect for him as observer.
Thanks AD-P for the gift of part of his Atlas [see 11039].
Send 70th birthday congratulations.
Thanks for kind letter.
Has not yet read EH’s article in Kosmos ["Einstämmiger und vielstämmiger Ursprung", 4 (1878–9): 360–76].
Rudolf Virchow affair lamentable. Virchow’s conduct inexplicable.
Thanks for honour of latest number of Kosmos.
Has just heard that HM has been treated shamefully by his Government. What has happened?
Seventieth birthday greetings.
Seventieth birthday greetings.
Birthday wishes.