Hibiscus and Nolana seeds not harvested at Kew. Sends list of the best plants of Lilium he can give.
Asks CD for name of work on orchids mentioned in his supplementary paper ["Fertilization of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56].
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Hibiscus and Nolana seeds not harvested at Kew. Sends list of the best plants of Lilium he can give.
Asks CD for name of work on orchids mentioned in his supplementary paper ["Fertilization of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56].
Financial adjustments for last edition of Origin
and a tentative title for the new work: "Descent of man and selection according to sex". [Later changed to "in relation to sex".]
Sends copies of a mission magazine [missing] and discusses the missionaries’ work in S. America, especially that of Thomas Bridges and W. H. Stirling.
Has found a remarkable anatomical character in the niata skull of which he wrote [see 5540]. Asks whether the skull CD brought from South America [at the Royal College of Surgeons] shows the same character. If so, it would provide incontestable evidence of the origin of this race of cattle.
On mutations in rabbits.
Cytisus case is not a double graft.
Aggressive behaviour of birds of prey.
Has CD read E. Claparède ["Remarques à propos de l’ouvrage de M. Alfred Russel Wallace sur la théorie de la sélection naturelle", Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. n.s. 38 (1870): 160–89]? Is it worth translating?
CD and J.-F. de Brandt are "en lutte for Ac. of Sc. [France]. What a farce it is".
His work on Nepenthes supports Miquel’s and Wallace’s view of the zoology of Borneo and Sumatra.
Brian Hodgson on dogs.
H. C. Bastian’s book [The modes of origin of lowest organisms (1871)] unsatisfactory.
Lyell does not share CD’s view of Bentham’s address.
Discusses applicability of evolutionary theory to the question of human origins.
Describes revisions in 2d edition of Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte.
His research on calcareous sponges.
Mentions evolutionary content in Gegenbaur’s Vergleichende Anatomie [2d ed. (1870)].
Thanks for the drawing.
E. Claparède’s review [of Theory of natural selection, Rev. Cours Sci. 7 (1870): 564–71] is weak.
Looks forward [to Descent] with fear of being "crushed under a mountain of facts!"
Sends CD information on two points which St George Mivart has asked him to provide, respecting the platysma myoides muscle. It is always in a state of violent contraction when a person is struggling for breath. In persons to whom chloroform is about to be administered, there is contraction but not so marked. No doubt contraction was strong before use of chloroform in operations.
Sends seeds from R. L. Playfair in Algiers.
F. Delpino writes asking where M. A. Curtis has published physiological observations on Dionaea ["Enumeration of plants growing spontaneously around Wilmington, North Carolina", Boston J. Nat. Hist. 1 (1834–7): 82–140; see Insectivorous plants, p. 301 n.].
Talk with Duke of Argyll on CD’s and Wallace’s views on man.
Sends a letter by Mr Teebay on variation in wild ducks.
Offers to lend Dr Cooper’s book on game fowls.
Is preparing a new edition [1873] of his Poultry book.
The Census Bill is down on the paper for tomorrow; will CD restate how he wants to put the question [on cousin marriages]?
Sends CD some seeds.
Has been experimenting with Oxalis crosses.
Discusses the Census Bill and CD’s attempt to get questions on consanguineous marriage added to the census.
CD lost first round of nominations at the Académie Française to Jean-Frédéric de Brandt. QdeB and Milne-Edwards continue the battle, but CD is fiercely attacked.
Asks for complete citation of CD’s geological work on South America because it has to be shown he did more than collect objects.
Supplies names of moths and references.
Describes his breeding experiments with butterflies to test effects of reduced light.
Brought forward the "cousin question" in the House; read most of CD’s letter to the House.
Some good men spoke for CD’s amendment, but in vain.
Would much like CD to contribute a note for insertion after his paper on Aymara Indians.