Responds to article in Nature on the sexual colours of butterflies [Collected papers 2: 220–2].
Responds to article in Nature on the sexual colours of butterflies [Collected papers 2: 220–2].
The honour RLT proposes [Darwin Festival] is a great one, "but would it not be better to wait until I am in my grave?"
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Sends a seedling Drosera capensis.
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CD’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, must have published on arsenic, as his father never published on medical subjects.
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The violent stranding of floating ice as first mentioned in CD’s article ["Ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire", Collected papers 1: 163–71] is the most remarkable of the Moel Tryfan phenomena.
Sends copy of Kosmos [containing Krause’s article on Erasmus Darwin].
Believes he can spare an Erasmus Darwin letter.
Thanks for cotton seeds.
Germination of Megarrhiza.
What are functions of "yeomen of the armoury" on p. 1? Who is "old Hooker" on p. 34? Needs to explain them in annotations [to Erasmus Darwin].
Send CD a present of a fur coat.
Thanks his children for their present of a fur coat.
The Birmingham Philosophical Society proposes to celebrate CD’s birthday and make him their first Honorary Member. RLT will draft the address.
Suspects WTT-D is the author of a good review of Erasmus Darwin in Nature [21 (1880): 245–7].
Sends publications.
Discusses comparative anatomy and evolutionary implications of several ligaments.
Thinks effects of Chinese foot-binding are inherited.
Criticises article on Darwinism in Brockhaus’ Lexikon.
Mentions forthcoming book on mammalian vertebrae.
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