Describes how adhesive bladders enable the achenia of Pumilio argyrolepsis to attach themselves to the soil. James Drummond sent seeds to CD with a memorandum on the achenia.
Describes how adhesive bladders enable the achenia of Pumilio argyrolepsis to attach themselves to the soil. James Drummond sent seeds to CD with a memorandum on the achenia.
Alexander S. Herschel's education goals and job prospects. [Lucy?] has published 'Marshall's Essays.' Question about investments.
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Orders journal volume [Mémoires présentées par divers savans à l’Académie des Sciences 4] from librarian.
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Responds to CD’s inquiries about rattlesnake.
Thanks WDF for an inkstand that keeps ink from getting muddy.
Asks if WDF can verify truth of a statement that white sows carry their young for a longer or shorter time (CD forgets which) than other colours. Presumes it is false, "but many odd peculiarities are correlated with colour".
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Sending first 64 pages of JH's Physical Geography with some insertions and corrections. Requests proofs in duplicate.
Expressing sympathy on the illness of Margaret Louisa Marshall (JH's daughter). Would like to hear the latest news by the bearer. Would JH append his name to the enclosed form.
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Sends him latest edition of the book brought out by the Alpine Club. A member has found the height of one of the mountains lower than that usually stated. Has written an article on glaciers for this month's Edinburgh Review.
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Writes to inform son John of the sudden death [after only a very brief illness] of John's sister Margaret Louisa. [The letter is quiet and accepting, praising God for the happy and blameless life that 'Looey' had led and what joy she had brought to the family.]
Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.