Discusses JPMW’s paper on Bonatea [see 5411].
Mentions Robert Brown’s views on pollen.
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Discusses JPMW’s paper on Bonatea [see 5411].
Mentions Robert Brown’s views on pollen.
Contributes to a memorial for Richard Dawes.
Describes his health.
Comments on a discussion of humming-birds by the Duke of Argyll [in The reign of law (1867)].
Encloses article by Henry Parker on the Duke’s book [Saturday Rev. 23 (1867): 82–4].
Discusses hybridisation in cowslip and primrose.
Mentions proposed visit.
Chapter 12 [of Variation] finished;
too late to include information on six-fingered men. Plans for book on man [Descent].
Mentions coral reefs of Tahiti.
Discusses volcanic islands; volcanoes of the Cordillera.
Thanks CL for comments [on Variation].
Thinks Pangenesis would be important step in biology if admitted as probable.
Introduction to French edition [of Origin] has injured the book.
Letter recommending V. O. Kovalevsky to a publisher.
Replies to CL’s further comments [on Variation].
Discusses direct action of the environment as a cause of variation.
Describes seeds transported in locust dung. Discusses other cases of transport and migration.
Suggestions on listing authors in the index [for Variation].
Discusses transport of frog spawn and young molluscs by birds.
Asks for index to Zoological Society’s Proceedings.
Mentions article on "Barbets" by PLS in Intellectual Observer [12 (1867–8): 241–6].
Thanks AG for information.
CD is obliged for a note by JS on crossing the Victoria regia, just received from Hooker; encourages JS to further experiments, saying there is much to be learned on self-fertilisation of plants.
Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)].
Cites his own views on diversity of structure and beauty.
Encloses letter from Wallace. Sexual selection: evidence advanced by Wallace.
Discusses correlation of growth.
Comments on article in the North British Review [by Fleeming Jenkin].
Discusses the evidence from physics on the age of the earth.
[Four pages of the final letter are missing, but the draft is complete.]