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Suggests a reference to Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1 Dec 1873, p. 497, when THF takes up Coronilla.
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Letter from John Hampden to the Secretary of the Zoological Society of London accusing ARW of being a cheat and a swindler.
Offers to experiment on the digestibility of chondrin and chlorophyll by Dionaea for CD.
Has noticed that painters depicting complex expressions give different expressions to the two sides of the face.
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Discusses variation and selection in Harz canaries.
Is interested in comparative nutritive values of chondrin and gelatin. The former seems to excite Drosera more, though albumen does so to a higher degree than either. Also asks if chlorophyll is digested by animals; Drosera digests it hardly at all.
A letter from Anton Dohrn declines the proposed fund [that THH and others suggested be raised in England for marine biological station at Naples].
Hooker’s inaugural as President of Royal Society a success.
R. Owen distinguished himself in his way.
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Thanks RF for his kind note; cannot quite believe or disbelieve stories of children raised by wolves.
On the vermiform appendix,
snipes breeding in England,
and the horns of crossbred sheep.
Wishes to identify a species of Cassia whose movements interest him.
Sorry to hear of Dohrn’s troubles. Has written to prospective donors saying that nothing can be done because of attitude of Dohrn’s father.
New [2d] edition of Descent is an awful job.
Diet no longer doing much for his health.
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Movement in plants.
Information on species of Cassia.