From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
2 May [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
‘The pigs-foot has been dispatched to day per Rail.’
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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‘The pigs-foot has been dispatched to day per Rail.’
Discusses abnormal pig’s foot sent to him by CD.
Further discussion of structure of abnormal pig’s foot.
Thanks him for book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].
Comments on dispute over spontaneous generation.
The Council [of the Royal Society] will not print Frank Darwin’s paper on Dipsacus [in Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond.].
Mentions GJR’s grafting experiments
and his investigation of spiritualism.
Discusses Francis Darwin’s paper on teasel [Dipsacus].
Comments on GJR’s investigation of spiritualism.
Comments on book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].
Invites him to visit