Thanks JT for his information and hopes to attend to it in any future edition.
Thanks JT for his information and hopes to attend to it in any future edition.
Asks whether CD has any changes to make in a new German edition of Variation, which is to be published next year.
Thinks Mr Salt has not understood about their wills and wants to clarify the matter when he has heard from CD.
Thanks AdeC for great pleasure his new book [Histoire des sciences (1873)] has given him. Comments on several of the essays.
When AdeC backs up Asa Gray in saying all instincts are congenital habits, CD must protest.
Asks several questions about butterflies of the Alps discussed on p. 322 [of Histoire].
Thanks HdeL-D for his photograph and encloses one of himself.
Has not strength nor time to alter and improve Variation.
First English edition of Expression now at 9000 copies.
Hopes to have a visit to discuss proportions to be left to the children under their wills; thinks 5/6 to the boys, 1/6 to the girls who "will have as much as is good for them".
Will be in London for a week. Invites ARW to lunch.
Sends copy of last edition of Origin.
Respecting AH’s theory that acceleration of growth produces new characters, urges AH to examine decapods that do and do not pass through zoea stage. Believes there are no marked differences between them.
Sends CD the case of a man he knew who could reject food voluntarily, in substantiation of the passage in Expression [p. 259] in which CD says "the suspicion arises that our progenitors must formerly have had [this] power".
His thanks for the excellent photograph. [See 8668.]
He is no longer working on expression but appreciates the obliging offer.
In his admirable work on expression CD has left out influence of fifth pair of cerebral nerves on the portiodura and on physiognomy; sends reference to his paper on this subject ["On certain points in the physiology and pathology of the fifth pair of cerebral nerves", Med.-Chir. Trans. 52 (1869): 27–42].
Plans to see THH in London.
Describes a case of maternal instinct, in which a hen protected kittens.
Report of yellow fever among Brazilian monkeys probably untrue; his correspondent is only a journalist.
Encloses letter about monkeys allegedly dying from yellow fever.
Considers that the erection of hair and feathers in fear may serve a real defensive purpose, which he details.
Personal affairs – the move to Marlborough Place.
Comments on EH’s forthcoming [Die Kalkschwämme (1872)].
Thinks EH is working much too hard.
Describes the pointed right ear of his son.
Mentions publication of Expression.
Asks whether children born blind ever frown, shed tears, or contract orbicular muscles.
Congratulates FCD on his anniversary [as Professor at Utrecht].