Asks FD to mollify Daniel Oliver and assure him that CD asks "only for what I wd. give my life’s blood for".
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Asks FD to mollify Daniel Oliver and assure him that CD asks "only for what I wd. give my life’s blood for".
Edwin Ray Lankester wants to reprint FD’s paper ‘Food bodies’ in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.
Asks FD to forward some eczema mixture to Southampton for him
and to hunt out notes on earthworm activity at Beaulieu Abbey.
Lists the tasks he has completed; sends on letter from Romanes; news of Bernard.
Forwards letters.
Offers to send MS of part of his new book [Life and habit] which gently pokes fun at CD. His book will offer an alternative to Pangenesis.
FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.
His father thanks WMM for his letter about the elephant case [see 11214]. If the story is true, CD thinks that the fruit must contain some alkaloid such as that in Indian hemp.
Nomenclature for kinds of heliotropism.
SB’s book [Life and habit (1878)] will be bound shortly. He will send two copies, one of which can be given to CD. To SB’s surprise it has turned out to be an attack on CD’s views and a defence of Lamarck; describes how he was brought to the opinions expressed in it.
Accepts CD’s offer of £50 for portrait of Erasmus Darwin.