Sends extract abusing CD, from a sermon by a Greek priest.
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Sends extract abusing CD, from a sermon by a Greek priest.
Notes and extracts relating to "bloom".
Encloses a memorandum [missing] drawn up by W. H. Flower, Huxley, and himself, defending Charles Wyville Thomson against an attack made upon him.
Wants to subpoena CD in a case pending against himself and Annie Besant, to be tried 18 June. [Bradlaugh and Besant were indicted for issuing an "obscene libel".]
Sends holly specimens.
Sends MS notes on intercrossing.
Describes different reactions of rabbits and guinea-pigs to stinging nettles.
Has made a number of grafts at Kew.
Encloses notes on natural selection; discussion of factors mitigating the swamping influence of intercrossing on incipient variations.
All young intelligent French naturalists support CD. But the professors are afraid of being called materialists, atheists, or communists.
A paper of his ["Sur l’origine paléontologique", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 84 (1877): 534–7] met with silence, except from Bureau. If only France had become Protestant!
Has two young friends who wish to call on CD.
Lists the tasks he has completed; sends on letter from Romanes; news of Bernard.
Cites a misprint in Orchids.
Asks how long Forms of flowers will be, and publication date.
Forwards a copy of his book Diseases of women [1877].
Objects to the passage about the Irish quoted by CD in Descent [1: 174].
Forwards letters.
JDH has to entertain the Emperor of Brazil [Pedro II], who wants to meet CD.
JDH finds the Emperor, once an energetic man, all used up.
Asks if phosphoric acid could have killed Drosera he received in a matchbox.
JDH recounts circumstances of his receiving Star of India (K.C.S.I.).
Concerning the publication of a French edition of Coral Reefs.
States that the sheep of the Cape will produce twins only when herbage is plentiful before rutting-time.
Makes some observations on bustards and baboons.
Emperor of Brazil continues to press JDH for a meeting with CD.
JDH’s daughter, Harriet, marries W. T. Thiselton-Dyer.