Has talked with J. J. Sylvester [Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich] and thinks Leonard [Darwin] should call on him.
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Has talked with J. J. Sylvester [Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich] and thinks Leonard [Darwin] should call on him.
Wishes correspondent to investigate immediately the loss of two boxes in transit.
Athenæum [Owen’s?] attack on JDH [BAAS address] and CD. False statement that CD’s sole groundwork is from pigeons.
Agrees with JDH on foolishness of Red Lion Club.
Huxley’s want of judgment.
JDH’s argument about astronomy and astronomers.
Pall Mall Gazette [8 (1868): 593, 595–6] and Morning Advertiser on JDH’s address.
Returns a pamphlet on Salvia [F. Hildebrand, "Über die Befruchtung der Salviaarten" (1865) Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. 4 (1866): 451–78].
Sends CD an article [missing] on the early domestication and culture of the goldfish.
Has met A. J. Gower, Consul at Nagasaki, Japan, who knows all about the Ainus. JDH has given away all the copies of CD’s Queries about expression.
Nettled by Pall Mall Gazette review of BAAS address [see 6342].
Owen is indeed an ass. Carlyle’s comment on Owen’s smile.
The Asa Grays at Kew.
Accepts invitation.
Sexual differences in plumage of birds; various species compared.
Strong support for theory of descent.
Observations on palaeobotany of S. France. Most woody angiosperm genera date far back. Magnolia type unchanged. Intermediate fossil species. Ancient species of Quercus persists as variety of modern species. Fossil evidence of ice age.
CD’s works have been an inspiration in France.
Thanks for Emanuel Bonavia’s letter on a Laburnum monster.
Pleased to have met the Darwins.
Sends his photograph.
Printers are past the index in vol. 2 of Variation.
Has written to A. J. Gower.
Sends more copies of Queries about expression.
Pall Mall Gazette article [see 6342] is monstrous to say religion did not attack science. Should scientific men ignore whole subject of religion?
Sends French journal with article on JDH and one (weak) by Agassiz on geographical distribution.
M. J. Berkeley has sent his address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): 83–7].
CD differs with JDH on Owen; could hardly bear to shake hands with him.
Wallaces, Blyth, Jenner Weirs are coming to stay on Sunday.
Thanks CD for invitation to Down.
Will repeat CD’s experiments on dimorphic and trimorphic plants.
Auditory organs of Orthoptera; stridulation in lamellicorn beetles.
Because of work on the first number of the new Royal Geographical Society magazine, a manual of geography, and other things, HWB finds he must decline CD’s invitation.
Sends a paper he has written [on scarlet runner].
BAAS Norwich meeting. Hooker [President] came out in great force. "Darwinismus" spread over the sections and crept into everything. CD will have rare happiness of seeing his ideas triumph during his life.
On sounds produced by Euchirus longimanus beetle. Sends a pair by post.
Sends essay by Karl Bettelheim.
Describes preparations for scientific journey.
Reached Kew last evening.
Hooker is in Scotland for two or three days.