Asks BR to make two drawings of dogs to show expressions. Discusses expressions of hostile dog and caressing dog.
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Asks BR to make two drawings of dogs to show expressions. Discusses expressions of hostile dog and caressing dog.
His analysis and explanation of the fact, observed by Charles Bell, that the eyeballs are turned upwards and inwards when consciousness begins to fail.
Testimonial letter. JM would be well fitted for the Chair of General and Comparative Physiology of the Royal Veterinary College.
Thanks for sending translation of A. W. Malm’s paper ["On flatfishes", K. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. N. F. 7 (1867–8) no. 4]; thinks it establishes that eye migrates across surface of head rather than through the skull.
Considers the relationship between direction of locomotion and the presence of stalked eyes in Crustacea.
Encloses a letter from Mr Moran, conveyed by Mr Lawrence.
Will attempt to draw the two expressions CD wants.
Sends preface of his book [see 8241]; he acknowledges debt to CD, but does not claim to have given a correct exposition of Darwinism.
Discusses Mivart’s reply ["Genesis of species", North Am. Rev. 114 (1872): 451–68] to CW’s review and to Huxley.
Asks whether CD knows anyone to whom he could usefully send a copy of his phyllotaxy paper [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415].
Thanks for kindness. BR must not think of trying until he feels inclination and strength for task.
Comments on AW’s work [Einfluss der Isolierung (1872)].
Discusses formation of local races.
Conchologist should investigate whether species of same genus vary during successive geological periods.
Comments on Franz Hilgendorf ["Über Planorbis multiformis", Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1866): 474–504].
Believes sexual selection will be judged a powerful agency.
Reports and asks questions about the offspring from the purported pairing of a woman with an ape.
Thanks FCD for information, which will make him "strike out a good deal".
Has received German pamphlet.
Will read work by John Soelberg Wells [? A treatise on the diseases of the eye (1869, 1870)].
Discusses his work on expression.
Wild plants that live at the edges of civilisation, e.g., forest flowers growing on grazed land, are always reduced in size.
On new [6th] edition of the Origin; comments on additions.
Owen’s attitude toward evolution.
Has acquired some French frogs, Rana esculenta, which have mated with R. temporaria, but the spawn has not developed.
Asks whether anyone has successfully crossed frogs and toads.
Protests against CD’s statement that FCD’s letter will make him "strike out a good deal". He would never pardon himself for being the cause of any suppression by CD. It is for specialists to put their knowledge at CD’s service. He is mistaken if he thinks a knowledge of physiology is sufficient for writing a book on expression. It is CD’s conception and spirit that all await. Offers to read those parts of the proofs of Expression dealing with physiology.
His father sends a list (to be returned) of boarders at Shrewsbury School. Implies CD stayed at Mother Bromfield’s.
Sends Plautus quotation on expression.
Has attended one more séance, which he describes; tells of the freedom investigators have to check, although they cannot prearrange, experiments.
Thanks CC’s father for relic. Remembers almost every boy above him but few below him in the school.
CC’s translation seems capital.
Discusses his book [Die Darwin’sche Theorie (1871)], in which he emphasises natural selection acts on inborn variation and is the exclusive cause of transmutation, in opposition to the theories of Haeckel and Moritz Wagner.