Explains why he cannot sign Miss Cobbe’s anti-vivisection petition.
Explains why he cannot sign Miss Cobbe’s anti-vivisection petition.
Explains more fully why CD cannot sign Miss Cobbe’ anti-vivisection petition.
Is on the eve of another row with the Office of Works about his application for assistance.
Is alarmed by the petitions against vivisection that are being circulated. Believes there is scope for reasonable legislation and would like to see eminent physiologists prepare a petition so that the science could be protected and animals saved from needless suffering.
Would like to see papers [on potato grafting] mentioned by CD.
CD has doubtless seen case in Gardeners’ Chronicle of vine in which scion has affected the stock [P. Grieve, "Singular sport upon a grape vine", Gard. Chron. (1875): 21].