Asks JFR to support E. A. Darwin’s election to the Athenaeum.
Asks JFR to support E. A. Darwin’s election to the Athenaeum.
Declines to review WC's recent work, and then JH justifies his position for the rest of the letter.
"My Dear Sir, I have called on you, to solicit your vote & interest at the Athenaeum Club […] in favour of my brother, Erasmus Darwin".
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Asks about partially white leaves and about droplets of water forming at the tops of leaves. Has been studying the effects of spectral rays on vegetable colorings.
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Not much is known about the circumstances that affect the color of plants. JH's researches will be valuable if they throw any light on the subject. Comments on the various theories affecting the color of plants.
Informs Owen of the fossil finds of F. J. Muñiz in south America.
Congratulates him on his discovery of the parallax of Alpha Centauri. Comments on this and makes suggestions for further examination.
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Thanks JH for reporting on C. P. Smyth's progress. Has read JH's translations of Schiller's The Walk. Sends copy of C. P. Smyth's work at Baseline Camp Zwartland on the remeasurement of N. L. Lacaille's meridian of arc.
Thanks for letter of 3 December and for encouragement. Informs JH that 30 observatories participated in observation of winter solstice. Is beginning to study humans in their different relations.
Asks De la Beche about variation among domesticated animals in Jamaica.
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Is confident that by summer his sweeps will all be reduced and arranged in three catalogs for JH's Cape Results.
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