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Pictures of mantis for his lecture tour in America.
Pictures of mantis for his lecture tour in America.
Thanks Poulton for the papers. Comments on their differences on colour theory.
Thanks for paper on pupae.
Discusses a new argument against Romanes' view of selection.
About volume on popular Darwinism. Chapter on Variation and Heredity. Views of Spencer, Cope, Geddes and Weismann.
Thanks for the proofs of Weismann, plus comments on content.
Returning Weismann proofs. Mentions an old paper of his "The Action of Natural Selection in Producing Old Age, Decay and Death" written 20 years earlier. Excellent reply by Thiselton-Dyer to Romanes.
Returning proofs of Weismann's essays and enclosing ARW's earlier "Note" on the subject.
Card and proofs have crossed with ARW's letter.
Comments on Galton's paper on Heredity - Journal of Anthropology, v (January 1876) p.329, which anticipates the ideas in Weismann's book. Comments.
Wants the name of a flower-mantis, for reference.
Would Poulton check proof of the 14th chapter of ARW's book. About Grant Allen.
Sending the rest of notices of Spencer, and of Cope.
Sending next sheet of paper on Weismann's views. Would Poulton read the concluding chapter on man.
Sending draft for corrections.
More drafts. About his knowledge of the spiritual world. Ideas about sexual selection.
About ill health, debate in the Pall Mall Gazette and Crookes' experiments in spiritualism.
About offer of DCL, which he has declined. "I have a profound distaste for all public ceremonials." Details about ill health, house move, and his work. Wishes to be left "in peaceful obscurity." Doesn't like crowds.