No summary available.
No summary available.
Has sent copy of his new book, Colour-sense [1879]; in anticipation of criticism, he justifies his reliance on recorded observations rather than experiments, by the heavy demands of his career as a journalist.
Encloses HWB’s Royal Society certificate with seven signatures, which CD thinks is ample.
Birthday wishes.
Thanks for birthday greetings.
Can give no information. Has never read works of Aristotle, but has unbounded respect for him as observer.
Thanks AD-P for the gift of part of his Atlas [see 11039].
No summary available.
Send 70th birthday congratulations.
Thanks for kind letter.
Has not yet read EH’s article in Kosmos ["Einstämmiger und vielstämmiger Ursprung", 4 (1878–9): 360–76].
Rudolf Virchow affair lamentable. Virchow’s conduct inexplicable.
No summary available.
Thanks for honour of latest number of Kosmos.
Has just heard that HM has been treated shamefully by his Government. What has happened?
Seventieth birthday greetings.
Seventieth birthday greetings.
Birthday wishes.
Discusses heliotropism in plant cotyledons. Asks for information.
Has signed a paper [unspecified];
thanks HW for his interesting letter and kind expressions about himself and his son.
HM’s teaching methods and his ideas are under attack in Germany along with the works of Ernst Krause.
Has been asked to contribute to W. K. Clifford memorial fund. Asks JT’s advice on how much the committee hopes to raise. Would like to give handsomely but feels bound "with such a lot of children, not to be extravagant".