- Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 17
- Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 17
More drafts. About his knowledge of the spiritual world. Ideas about sexual selection.
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More drafts. About his knowledge of the spiritual world. Ideas about sexual selection.
About ill health, debate in the Pall Mall Gazette and Crookes' experiments in spiritualism.
About offer of DCL, which he has declined. "I have a profound distaste for all public ceremonials." Details about ill health, house move, and his work. Wishes to be left "in peaceful obscurity." Doesn't like crowds.
If DCL gets offered again, will accept. "I feel myself too much of an amateur in Nat. His, and altogether too ignorant ... to receive honours from a great University .. . left school (a bad one) at 14." About Mr. Edwards and his butterfly collection. Criticises Bates' classification of butterflies.
Has written to Professor Price, about DCL. Thanks for volume of Weismann's Essays.
Wants Poulton to lend him slides of caterpillars.
Thanks Poulton for slides.
About slides. About a reference -ARW can't remember where he found it. Has replied to Mr. Cunningham in Nature.
Wants a copy of the inheritance discussion at British Association, section D.
About DCL ceremony. The 20th would suit him better. ARW has just returned from the North. "Romanes has been inflicting long letters on me!".
Arrangements for the DCL ceremony at Oxford. His wife is unable to accept kind invitation from Mrs. Poulton.
Writes about train times to Oxford.
Sending Cope's books, with his comments. Not convinced about female preference for peacock feathers.
About the classification of colours.
Suggests alterations to Poulton's table of classification of animal colouration.
Simplification of colour uses for Poulton's book.
About the inclusion of a simpler table in Poulton's book.
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.".
Asking for errata from Darwinism for the new edition.
Asking for advice about the best type of microscope for a beginner -as a present for his daughter. Likes Ball's book on Use and Disuse.