From:
Archibald Geikie
To:
Archibald Geikie
Date:
3 November 1907
Source of text:
MM/11/118, Royal Society
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Royal Society
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Proofs of "Mars" (Is Mars Habitable?), all William's suggestions adopted, Lowell quoted on atmosphere of Mars; Lowell doing a series of popular articles in Century magazine so a "fair stand-up fight" between him and ARW; will now continue with work on "Spruce", (Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes by Richard Spruce, ed. and condensed by ARW, Dec. 1908) intends to include matter from Spruce articles and reports for Linnean Society, Geographical Society and Blue books and some new letters, cutting out much of the Journal and botanical matter to make the book more readable; supposes they must wait 6 months for the "Widows" [Scottish Widows insurance].
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Has read and corrected proofs of Poulton's work on Darwinism.
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JDH communicates his approval of Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer's article in NATURE. He considers the 'most remarkable instance of a changed form' to be the cut-leaved bramble [blackberry] which he has observed in his own garden. He also thinks it would be interesting to study variation & mutation in Japanese Maples. JDH is suffering with bad eczema but continuing his work dissecting & sketching Balsams. He observes that they are numerous & very location specific with no species overlap between India, China & Tibet. JDH has borrowed some Balsam specimens from Leveille at Les Man herbarium, they are all different from those in the Kew & Paris herbariums but are hard to work with having been badly dries.