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Reports on the comfortable life of an immigrant in Oregon.
Thanks for awarding him the Bressa prize. Has sent an order to receive the 12,000 lira.
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Admiration for ARW’s paper, The origin of species and genera, Nineteenth Century (1880). Good use of Allen’s "admirable researches". Disappointment about the Epping Forest appointment. Farrer’s article in Fortnightly Review.
Has read AE’s paper in Nature [21 (1880): 217] on Melochia, a new family of heterostyled plants, and suggests some crosses to be carried out to determine the fertility of illegitimate seedlings.
The reviews of Erasmus Darwin are mainly favourable.
Thanks for the information about Dr Erasmus Darwin and his parents.
Requests that they receive, on his behalf, an award of 12000 lira [lire!?] from the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin, and transmit it to the Union Bank, London.
Admiration of ARW’s ["The origin of species and genera", Nineteenth Century (Jan 1880)]. Good use of Allen’s "admirable researches".
Disappointment about the Epping Forest appointment.
Farrer’s article in Fortnightly Review.
Results of his second year of experiments with Russian wheat varieties will be published in Gardeners’ Chronicle [n.s. 13 (1880): 108, 172–3].
Observations on germination of wheat.
Regrets he is unwilling to join [Epping Forest Field Club], but encloses a guinea to aid with their preliminary expenses.
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Delighted by honour CD has received from Turin. Agrees with Horace that the money ought to be given to the Zoological Station at Naples.
Thanks JHF for copy of his Souvenirs entomologiques [1879].
Thanks JM for sending Drosera specimens.
FBG greatly interested in CD’s article ["Fertility of hybrids from the Chinese and common goose"] but has not altered his opinion on the matter.
Pleased by favourable English newspaper reviews of Erasmus Darwin. Charles Reinwald has not yet said whether he wants to use annotations intended for German readers.
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