Asks questions about earthworms.
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Asks questions about earthworms.
Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from the British Museum and problems of classification. Encloses a note of thanks to be laid before the Trustees [see 1153].
Sends two pages from MS chapter on instinct. Presumes it is too late for chapter to be of use to GJR.
After train ride Baby [Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin] calls every vehicle "boo boo".
CD cannot find the lagoon-island mud that WCW asked about, but he sends other geological specimens he hopes will be interesting.
GJR may have CD’s MS chapter on instinct. It was abstracted for Origin, but CD probably will not prepare it for publication.
Thanks RAB for kindness. Says W. H. Flower will examine wings [of geese].
Requests that a box of specimen goose wings for CD be forwarded by the Institution to [W. H.] Flower at the Royal College of Surgeons. The wings bear on the transmission of the effects of injury.
Discusses "highly expressive" speech of young children.
Explains difficulties in supplying wings of geese. Describes injury of old gander that sired the abnormal geese.
Encloses letters from Blair on inheritance of injured wing in geese. Says specimens have been sent.
Mentions case of pigeon born without eyes.
Regrets that LAE went to Down for nothing.
Regrets not seeing CD.
Congratulates CD on election to French Academy.
Comments on GJR’s lecture on animal intelligence [Rep. BAAS].
Comments on J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie [1876].
Suggests that GJR keep a young monkey to observe.
Discusses animal intelligence.
Advises GJR on acquiring monkey.
Sends book by Delboeuf [La psychologie (1876)].
Discusses spiritualism. Says Williams, the medium, is exposed as fraud.
Thanks him for plant specimens.
Asks about sowing Drosera seeds.
Urges publication of an exposure of Williams the spiritualist medium.
Comments on GJR’s article in Fortnightly Review ["The beginning of nerves", n.s. 24 (1878): 509–26].
Comments on "poor old" Edinburgh Review.
Describes findings of examination of geese with abnormal wings. Says old gander that sired geese is without injury or abnormality. Encloses his assistant’s report.
Thanks for account of Fuegians
and news about old "Beaglers".
Has been reading A. A. Brassey [Around the world in the yacht "Sunbeam" (1878)].