Sends family news;
describes what remains of his "menagerie" and tells of his interest in the framework of his son’s German badger-hound.
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Sends family news;
describes what remains of his "menagerie" and tells of his interest in the framework of his son’s German badger-hound.
Astonished at circular and will risk revolutions to invest. Describes Blidah, Algeria.
Thanks CD [for his increased allowance?].
Writes of his tour [in Algeria].
CD elected an honorary member of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Has read Krause’s "Life of Erasmus Darwin" [Kosmos 4 (1879): 397–424]; thinks it very interesting to anyone interested in "Darwinismus" – everybody.
Is reading Origin on inheritance. Reports case of a man who went bald through illness, whose three sons, all born later, also became bald.
Suggests CD send Kosmos to W. S. Dallas as Krause will surely give his permission for translation.
Glad CD is pleased by his "Erasmus Darwin". Was not able to obtain book by Anna Seward [Memoirs of the life of Dr Darwin (1804)]. Could CD check relevant passages for errors? Would be great honour if CD could arrange English translation. Wants to enlarge essay into book.
Report of wild ass crossed with tame one in India.
Returns to CD a corrected proof [of "Fritz Müller on a frog having eggs on its back", Nature 19 (1878–9): 462–4].
Discusses adaptations of the pupae of, and Fritz Müller’s work on, Trichoptera.
Sends suggestions for CD’s preface to Erasmus Darwin.
Offers to translate [E. Krause’s] "Erasmus Darwin" for £10.
Thanks CD for signing his certificate for the Royal Society.
Repeats his willingness to translate E. Krause’s "Erasmus Darwin".
Urges Frank to reconsider his refusal of Cambridge Examinership.
Asks if CD would like to subscribe to a reprint of Edward Blyth’s Field articles on cranes.
Had doubts about excerpt from Anna Seward’s book [Life of Dr Darwin]. Sends slightly enlarged version of his "Erasmus Darwin". Includes footnote denouncing Seward’s book.
Finds that part 2 of ED’s Botanic garden, 2d ed. (1790), appeared before part 1 (1791).
Thanks for sketch of Erasmus Darwin by John Dowson [see Erasmus Darwin, p. iv]; would like to incorporate this information into MS. Previous biographers of Erasmus Darwin had insufficient knowledge of what appeared in his works.
Sends his photograph as requested.
Cattle and sheep varieties removed from their native soils degenerate rapidly.
Regrets she has none of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s letters. Relates some anecdotes concerning her grandfather.