ARW sends proof of article on heredity. Comments on his argument and purpose. Will has left Siemens and is going to see Crookes. Comments on J. A. Allen's review in the Ark, Romanes article in reply to Spencer, and Weismann's book The Germ Plasm.
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ARW sends proof of article on heredity. Comments on his argument and purpose. Will has left Siemens and is going to see Crookes. Comments on J. A. Allen's review in the Ark, Romanes article in reply to Spencer, and Weismann's book The Germ Plasm.
Discussion of individual adaptability question. Spencer is disturbed by possibility of non-heredity of acquired characteristics. Will go to the Lakes and Derbyshire in a week. Royal Society - minute books - who attended meetings?.
Has been asked best way to kill bullocks! Will is now an apprentice to an electrical engineer in Newcastle. ARW secured the position through a friend, although he had to pay a £200 premium. Discusses his two articles on the Ice Age in the Fortnightly Review.
About Meldola's visit on Sunday.
About recent outings. Criticism of American Neo-Lamarckians.
About Entomology. Describing is not of special use to the philosophical generaliser, but collecting, naming and classifying are most essential. He had described very little - except palms, when he wrote his papers on variation- but very experienced in these other areas. Errors of Galton and Bateson are due to want of such training. Description of trip to Switzerland with Mitten in the summer. Will's work with Mr Holmes.
Arrangements for the Meldola's visit. Is writing an article on the utility of all specific characteristics, and has also reviewed Cope's book for Nature.
Glad that he had nothing to do with the mimicry book. Will be giving a paper at the Linnean on "The Utility of all Specific Characteristics." Views on Essex Forest.
About Linnean meeting. Description of "woad" from Chamber's Encyclopaedia.
His sister died two years ago. Her husband, Thomas Sims, who was a photographer with a small business, has been sold up for rent, and is in danger of starvation or the workhouse. Does Meldola know of a post such as photographer to a scientific man or institution which would be suitable for Sims?.
Compliments Weismann's book on selection and discussion of central themes.
Comments on Meldola's address on variation, with specific points.
Discusses Darwin's and Weismann's views of heredity of acquired characteristics.
Thanks for seeds. Talk about his son, who has been working on an electric railway near Boston.
About butterfly exhibition and Will's travels in America.
Questions about Professor Lippman's method of colour photography for his book on the century. More about his son, Will, who is working in Denver.
Thanks for Meldola's explanation of Lippman's theory of colour photography, and discussion of this.
Sending slides with examples of colouration and mimicry, used for his American lecture tour.
Has been working on Studies Scientific and Social, a school reader of the Wonderful Century and some articles for America. House hunting -in Sussex. Will returned from America in March and is now working for Macartney and McElroy in London. Violet is headmistress of a kindergarten belonging to the Frobel Institute. Discusses recent inventions and telescopes at the exhibition.
About colour photography for new edition of the Wonderful Century.