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Has read Earthworms.

Wonders if CD has studied gnats; inquires about their apparently useless hovering over one spot for hours.

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Will be home on Saturday.

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Passes on an account from Cohen of preparations by Hahn of fossil coral-like structures.

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Commiserates on news of Wiesner and experiment on transmission of heliotropism. Asks whether he should review book for Nature.

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Thanks for two letters from Pfeffer. Will return translation of Pfeffer and send a letter from Elfring. Looking forward to working on "antiWiesner" experiments. Will return on 26th or 27th.

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Encloses letter from Elfving (not found). Should he publish on false circumnutation?

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ARW’s view of migration of plants from mountain to mountain gains support from case described in Nature [23 (1880): 125–6] by J. G. Baker. Identical species of alpine plants found in African mountains and Madagascar.

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Thanks for Earthworms. Very proud to see his drawing in the book.

Does CD know of experiments with sea water on earthworms?

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Notes on the thickness of mould on the slope of the inland side of Beachy Head.

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Regrets CD will not allow publication of his letter.

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Thanks for Earthworms.

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Announces the resolution passed by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s conference of 7 Jan 1881.

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Appreciation of CD’s efforts in recommending him for pension. Asks about proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.

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Further information about the pension with particular thanks to CD for his role.

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Thanks for book [Earthworms]. Asks whether leaf-mould is not formed by decay as well as by the agency of worms.

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News from the laboratory at Strasbourg; is working on Equisetum roots. Wortmann has found circumnutation in the mycelium of a fast-growing fungus. Please send papers (see 13155).

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Discusses observations on circumnutation by FD, Kraus, Wortmann.

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Announces intention to hold a private conference with the Archbishop of Canterbury with the aim of encouraging men of science to reaffirm their religious beliefs and also to publish a series of articles in the Contemporary Review on the state of the various sciences.

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Vegetable mould covering paving-stones in Oxfordshire lanes accumulated over 14 or 16 centuries.

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Would like some of his notes. Has been looking at roots of Linum, cucurbits, larch, and orchids. Is content that mother should teach Bernard whatever religion she likes.