Awakened by a mouse scratching at night, he mewed like a cat and the mouse disappeared.
Sending a group of stuffed sparrows.
Awakened by a mouse scratching at night, he mewed like a cat and the mouse disappeared.
Sending a group of stuffed sparrows.
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Thanks GJR for copy of his book [Christian prayer and general laws (1874)].
Discusses breeding and sterility.
Discusses experiments to test Pangenesis. Cites useful references.
Suggests GJR visit Kew gardens.
JDH writes to arrange a time he & Thiselton-Dyer can confer regarding the [proposed Jodrell?] laboratory.
Sends three specimens of Aldrovanda verticillata.
Asks four favours: sort out confusion about the name Byblis gigantea or grandiflora; can he see dried specimens of Genlisea ornata; is there a more recent list of Drosera spp. than Steudel 1841; are there at Kew any dried specimens of Utricularia montana collected from the plant’s native haunts.
Bishop J. W. Colenso supports his old contention that the Kaffirs (including Zulus of South Africa) are Negroes.
[Horace Waller’s] The last journals of David Livingstone [in central Africa (1874)] cites CD’s plant research and has many facts "for Darwin".
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Sends Utricularia montana and Byblis species.
Drosera census numbers 100 species.
Genlisea distinguished from Utricularia.
Thanks for his Methods of ethics [1874].
No summary available.
Discusses his Anthropogenie [1874]. Remarks on the tables.
Has CD received Friedrich von Hellwald’s Culturgeschichte [1875]?
Plans research trip to the Mediterranean.
Asks JDH to help G. J. Romanes, who wishes to try Pangenesis experiment.
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Is writing confidentially not to justify the passage referred to [see 9759], which he much regrets, but to state facts. He never intended any personal hostility to [George] Darwin and seeks advice about how to make reparation.
His view of Huxley’s cutting Mivart without explanation. States his own intentions. Mivart’s apology in October Quarterly Review is abominable.
Has heard of a Drosophyllum in Edinburgh. Is it too late?
No summary available.
Expresses his gratitude to JDH and Huxley in the Mivart affair. Thinks he should write directly to Mivart, if Mivart does not retract.
Would be glad to have another Drosophyllum.
Will help Romanes. Offers Kew’s facilities for experiments. Is writing to the Board [of Works?] about a physiological laboratory, which Sir Philip Joddrell has offered to build. Thinks Government should support original research like Romanes’.
Thanks THH and Hooker for defending George Darwin against Mivart’s libel.