Sends CD some Indian corn seeds to demonstrate the extreme effect sometimes producible on progeny by the mutilation of a parent.
Writes of a recent book.
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Sends CD some Indian corn seeds to demonstrate the extreme effect sometimes producible on progeny by the mutilation of a parent.
Writes of a recent book.
Requests CD write in support of Government pension for her husband, George Cupples.
A month in the West Indies, where he saw the luxuriant struggle of tropical vegetation, has brought HH "still more closely within the circle" of CD’s doctrine.
Describes his children, who all seem to have inherited both dark hairs from their mother and light hairs from WGS with the latter greatly outnumbering the former.
W. C. Wells’s theory relating black skin-colour and immunity to malaria may be true. Has seen Negroes come down with fever, but these were generally light in colour.
Details of an apparently hereditary deformity in a man.
Sends CD a paper dealing in part with animal pigmentation [Med.-Chir. Trans. 2d ser. 411 [check vol no!?] (1870): 263–90]. Discusses relationship between white colouring and susceptibility to poisonous plants.
Ideas of female beauty of W. African Negroes are on the whole the same as those of Europeans.
Relates instances of rabbits suffering from a condition which affects only the patches of white on their fur.
Will make observations on the platysma for CD.
Pleased CD is quoting him in Descent.
Sends CD two books outlining a new geological theory. Believes his theory explains the discontinuities in the fossil record.
Glad "Bran" [deerhound puppy] arrived safely.
JM reports 1900 [advance] copies of Descent were taken at his annual sale,
and 340 copies of Origin [5th ed.] were sold.
Sheets for Dutch publisher will be sent to CD immediately. JM cautions against possibility that Dutch edition will anticipate the English.
Observations on winter colour of coats of male and female elk,
spots on deer,
and tuft of hair on breasts of wild female turkeys.
Has heard "sad tales" about CD’s forthcoming book [Descent]; does not think even CD can persuade him his ancestors were apes.
Reports case of apparent incipient dimorphism. Observations on variations in flower structure, especially style length, within species of Polemoniaceae.
Sofya Kovalevsky not admitted to University in Berlin.
Translating the four sheets CD sent. When will book [Descent] be printed?
Alexander [Kovalevsky] has gone to the Red Sea to study corals.
Will work on live Scalpellum at Naples in spring.
Bemoans England’s Prussian sympathies. Paris will fall without bombardment.
On a good criticism of ARW’s views [North Am. Rev. (1870)].
Problems of establishing a permanent residence.
His Presidential Address for Entomological Society will answer A. Murray on geographical distribution of Coleoptera.
Concerning the Dutch edition of Descent.
Encloses a few answers to CD’s queries on expression. Continues to observe the expressions and habits of the Malays, Dyaks, and Saribus tribes [See Expression, pp. 21, 209].