Agrees François Delsarte’s view [that the eyes do not show emotion, only indicate the object of it], is probably wrong.
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Agrees François Delsarte’s view [that the eyes do not show emotion, only indicate the object of it], is probably wrong.
Is pleased that HHHvZ has appended his notes to his translation [of Expression and is obliged for the abstract of these notes [see 8712].
Requests hydrated magnesia.
Sends FD £5 for the loan of his microscope.
"If you will apply to any bookseller whatever you will procure a copy.–– Publisher Murray."
CD appreciates the correspondent’s suggestion.
Drosophyllum arrived; none of his observations turned out as he expected, but nevertheless he understands its habits better than he did. The secreting hairs that he observed may be explained as a mere chemical reaction.
Comments on various articles he has read.
Asks for Thiselton-Dyer’s notes.
Thanks his Italian colleague for articles on the skull of a chimpanzee.
CD subscribes an additional £10.
Discusses error in CD’s calculation of natural increase of elephants.
Includes extract from Origin.
HCFJ’s review of the Origin was the wittiest and in some respects the best written.
Thanks him for his Electricity and magnetism [1873].
Requests litmus paper and gum.
JJW is quite at liberty to use CD’s name as patron of cat show.
Hopes that Charles Lyell has enjoyed his excursion.
Gives opinion on the merits of Mr [Stephen P. J.] Eng[leheart (Darwin family doctor)]. Believes he would make an excellent county officer if elected to the district office of health.
Arranges a visit to CL.
Comments on FG’s article ["Hereditary improvement", Fraser’s Mag. 87 (1873): 116–30]. Finds it "the sole feasible, yet I fear utopian, plan of procedure in improving the human race".
Thanks for rabbits for Balfour.
Mentions reading W. R. Greg’s Enigmas [of life (1872)].
Asks whether his observations on absorptive powers of glandular hairs of plants are new facts.
Asks for a Drosophyllum.
Comments on Francis Galton’s article in Fraser’s Magazine,
Greg’s Enigmas,
and Alphonse de Candolle’s Histoire des sciences.
Has received, through AG, a letter on Dionaea [from W. M. Canby] which has greatly interested him. CD asks AG to question his correspondent on whether it catches large or small insects.
Mary Treat will observe Drosera filiformis.
Has pleasure in signing the [missing] enclosure, with every word of which he fully agrees.