On H. A. Dubois’ attack on "Darwin, Huxley and Lyell"
and H. J. Clark’s Mind in nature [1865].
BDW’s work [on Cynipidae].
Appleton’s cannot alter their plates so as to reproduce revised work [Origin, 4th ed.]. Has made it clear that CD could not do otherwise than object strenuously to course they intend to pursue, and has asked them to return the sheets. Wishes CD’s publisher would supply U. S. market with large numbers of copies, as the English edition could well compete with any American one. Encloses [statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin to 1 February 1866].
Proposes to delay issue [of 4th ed. of Origin] until November to obtain better market conditions. Now printing 1250 copies.
Explains practice of not cutting pages is due to propensity of English public to read books without buying them.
Asks help in naming a lupin, enclosed. Nurseryman said parties who make experiments should find the names. He might have added "and not trouble their friends".
Thanks CGE for two papers and for his assistance of many years ago.
Points out an error in proof-sheets of Hildebrand’s paper on Corydalis cava (Hildebrand 1866d) and suggests some improvements to the English.
Will attend to CD’s wishes regarding six presentation copies [of Origin, 4th ed.] for England and America.
Working on "Insular floras" lecture for BAAS Nottingham meeting [see 5135].
Puzzled at distribution of Madeiran and Canaries plants and insects.
Supports Forbes’s Atlantis hypothesis [see 956], which he has reread and to which he will allude.
Wollaston disappointing on Madeiran insects.
Assures CD of his belief in descent from his first reading of Origin.
Describes a case of dichogamy.
His reasons for rejecting Atlantis hypothesis connecting Madeira and Canary Islands.
Questions for his lecture on "Insular floras".
Comments on CD’s criticism of Atlantis. Has no fixed opinion on continental extensions. Great objections to hypotheses of CD and Forbes: botanical to CD’s; geological to Forbes’s. Will point out that natural selection is necessary to both hypotheses.
John Lubbock wants a copy of Origin (4th ed.) for Philip Norman.
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Expresses thanks for RH, in a paper on George Boole in the British Quarterly Review, giving JH credit for having published 'my introduction of the mode of separation of the symbol of differentiation from the differentiated function and executing on it operations analogous to those of common algebra.'