Two criticisms (one by Henrietta Darwin) of THH’s Lectures [to working men].
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Two criticisms (one by Henrietta Darwin) of THH’s Lectures [to working men].
On six-fingered men: suspects increase confined to metacarpals and digits. Has asked James Paget to look it up.
It is not carpal or tarsal bones that are increased [in six-fingered men] but generally only the digits and metacarpals.
Pectoral fins of fish and sharks.
Asks THH to check P. M. Roget’s statement that there is a rudiment of a sixth digit in frogs.
[P.S. missing from original.]
A note reminding THH to examine the rudiment of the 6th toe on the hind foot of a Batrachian.
Thanks for "monkey book" [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)].
Must wait till he has finished Lyell [Antiquity of man (1863)].
Praise of Man’s place.
Owen’s muddling letter in Athenæum [21 Feb 1863, pp. 262–3].
Is disappointed in Lyell’s excessive caution on species and origin of man [in Antiquity of man].
Has not answered CD’s former letters. Has been ill. Will look up fish business as soon as he is square again.
Pleads guilty to both criticisms of "Miss Henrietta Minor Rhadamanthus Darwin" [see 3896] of points in his Lectures [to working men].