Discusses peacocks and the rediscovery of the long-lost crested turkey.
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Discusses peacocks and the rediscovery of the long-lost crested turkey.
CD has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Bonn.
Discusses a domestic oriental fowl.
Is having problems getting answers to CD’s queries on expression as Chinese facial expressions are limited and controlled. Answers as well as he can. [See Expression index.]
Send their work [Die Laubmoose Oberfrankens (1868)].
Is writing to Australia to answer CD’s questions about resemblance of tail-feathers of young and mature female kingfishers. [See Descent 2: 188.]
Coming on Saturday.
Baby and wife pretty well.
Gratified by CD’s approval of his articles, which the public has not much liked.
Clarifies the obscure sentence CD criticised – forms having a different genesis can be similar.
Calls CD’s attention to Kovalevsky’s memoir on Amphioxus [Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg 7th ser. 11 (1868) no.4]. K’s views are all in favour of CD’s and against GHL’s.
Thanks for photograph.
Sends work proving all elements formed of one substance: "Pantogen". Feels affinity with CD. His work will cause as great a stir. Has already been preached against. Asks CD for a note as a token of his sympathy.
Relates some observations on expression among Australian aboriginals and encloses answers to CD’s queries from other observers. [These include letters and observations from: J. A. Hagenauer, 28 May 1868; Archibald Grahame Lang, 17 June 1868; H. B. Lane, 24 June 1868; Templeton Bunnett, 25 June 1868; J. Bulmer (1868). (See introduction to Expression.)]
Asks whether it would be convenient if he came to Down. JVC would be sorry to leave England without seeing and thanking CD.
The problem of sterility, and its relation to natural selection.
George Bentham’s support of Darwinism.
The material [from F. Müller] makes the translation more like a new edition.
German entomologists are becoming Darwinists.
Reports on Norwich address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): lviii–lxxv]. Left out some things, i.e., Asa Gray’s being superseded.
Tyndall says CD and JDH are types of "unconscious merit".
Sends a copy of his Osteologia avium.
Variation in pigs’ heads
and in Convolvulus.
Discusses the development of horns in antelopes. Remarks on the variation within and between the species of Cervus and on their relationship to each other.
On the delay in receiving CD’s new book [Variation] and his delight in a borrowed copy.
Encloses a Prospectus on his new periodical "American Entomologist" devoted to economic entomology.
Comments on the talents of his young partner, C. V. Riley.
Requests photographs for Riley of CD and Westwood.
Dr J. L. Le Conte has not yet received the request that he furnish CD with information about the stridulatory organs of Coleoptera.
The newspapers’ pother about his mild theology.
Tyndall’s reference to JDH and CD as the two "modestest" men in science.
Huxley offended the clergy twice without cause or warrant.
William Hooker ill.
Astronomers do not like JDH’s reference to them.
On triumph of "Darwinianism".
Discussion of their differences on subject of protection.
JBI has been charmed with Variation. Does not think there is really any theological difficulty in the "predestination of variation".