Encloses HWB’s Royal Society certificate with seven signatures, which CD thinks is ample.
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].
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.
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".
Outlines his theory to explain the form of certain Swedish sandhills and puts forward his ideas regarding the geological history of the earth.
Sends thanks to the Masters for congratulations on his birthday, saying "the approbation & sympathy of one’s fellow-workers in the acquisition of knowledge is the highest possible reward which any man ought to desire".
Second request that CD sign a Cambridge memorial [i.e., petition]. The heading has been amended to include graduates who have formerly studied medicine.
Thanks for having sent prehistoric remains.