Violet's health and expenses; family visitors.
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Violet's health and expenses; family visitors.
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Plants found on his way back from Dundee last week. Specimen of Carabus enclosed in brown paper [Carabus nitens]. Asks advice about Willie, whose reports are not good. Owing to ill health and delicacy of constitution he is really 2-3 years younger than other lads his age. Could Meldola ask Professor Thompson whether Willie would be permitted to repeat the year, if he fails the exam?.
Spring flowers; family affairs; Vaccination Commission; exam papers.
Thanks for Poulton's book on colour and Poulton's corrections to Darwinism. About Romanes' attack in Nineteenth Century -"I can't make out what he means.".
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Marking exam papers; writing address for L.N. (Land Nationalisation) Society; Violet's studies; local walks.
Family members; Nutwood Cottage; visitors; Bull's Exhibition of Orchids at Chelsea.
About review of Poulton's book that ARW has written in Nature. Hopes Poulton likes it.
Thanks for informing him that Willie will be admitted to the intermediate course. "I fear he has not much "go" in him, but I was much the same at his age, and it took me a long time to understand many things." More about Willie's reports and lectures. Is preparing new edition of Natural Selection and Tropical Nature plus changes to Malay Archipelago. Visit to Portland with Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. Mentions a Mr. Holmes.
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