Obliged for JP’s account of sheep. Such articles would make naturalists think more of natural selection.
E. A. Darwin’s health bad.
Asks about sex ratio in sheep births.
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Obliged for JP’s account of sheep. Such articles would make naturalists think more of natural selection.
E. A. Darwin’s health bad.
Asks about sex ratio in sheep births.
Discusses beaks and relative numbers of the sexes of goldfinches.
Comments on sexual selection among butterflies.
Mentions Kerguelen moth collected by Hooker.
Comments on JJW’s observations on coloured birds.
Wishes he had known of the views of Hippocrates, which are almost identical to his Pangenesis hypothesis. CD advances it as provisional, but secretly expects some such view will have to be admitted.
JM sends note for £420.
Asks CD to use his good offices on behalf of William Clowes’s son who is up for election to Athenaeum.
Acknowledges receipt of bill for £420.
Will try to attend Athenaeum meeting to help elect Clowes’s son.
First volume of Variation in French has been printed. Second volume has been translated. CD’s additions to chapter 11 arrived in time.
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