About Jesuit writers. Advice about U.S. for prospective fruit grower.
About Jesuit writers. Advice about U.S. for prospective fruit grower.
Seeking information about telescopes. "I have all my life been longing for a decent telescope but could never afford one." Violet is interested in the stars - following a visit to Mrs Fisher (Miss Buckley). About Will's accident - has damaged his eye.
About medals just presented. Will is returning from college - future work plans. Discusses Fisher's Physics of the Earth's Crust. About his article on the Permanence of the Oceanic Basins for Natural Science.
About diamond beetles for an old correspondent in Melbourne (Charles French, Exhibition buildings, Melbourne). Comments on mimicry.
ARW sends proof of article on heredity. Comments on his argument and purpose. Will has left Siemens and is going to see Crookes. Comments on J. A. Allen's review in the Ark, Romanes article in reply to Spencer, and Weismann's book The Germ Plasm.
Discussion of individual adaptability question. Spencer is disturbed by possibility of non-heredity of acquired characteristics. Will go to the Lakes and Derbyshire in a week. Royal Society - minute books - who attended meetings?.
Has been asked best way to kill bullocks! Will is now an apprentice to an electrical engineer in Newcastle. ARW secured the position through a friend, although he had to pay a £200 premium. Discusses his two articles on the Ice Age in the Fortnightly Review.
About Meldola's visit on Sunday.
About recent outings. Criticism of American Neo-Lamarckians.
About Entomology. Describing is not of special use to the philosophical generaliser, but collecting, naming and classifying are most essential. He had described very little - except palms, when he wrote his papers on variation- but very experienced in these other areas. Errors of Galton and Bateson are due to want of such training. Description of trip to Switzerland with Mitten in the summer. Will's work with Mr Holmes.
Arrangements for the Meldola's visit. Is writing an article on the utility of all specific characteristics, and has also reviewed Cope's book for Nature.
Glad that he had nothing to do with the mimicry book. Will be giving a paper at the Linnean on "The Utility of all Specific Characteristics." Views on Essex Forest.
About Linnean meeting. Description of "woad" from Chamber's Encyclopaedia.
His sister died two years ago. Her husband, Thomas Sims, who was a photographer with a small business, has been sold up for rent, and is in danger of starvation or the workhouse. Does Meldola know of a post such as photographer to a scientific man or institution which would be suitable for Sims?.
Compliments Weismann's book on selection and discussion of central themes.
Comments on Meldola's address on variation, with specific points.
Discusses Darwin's and Weismann's views of heredity of acquired characteristics.
Thanks for seeds. Talk about his son, who has been working on an electric railway near Boston.
About butterfly exhibition and Will's travels in America.
Questions about Professor Lippman's method of colour photography for his book on the century. More about his son, Will, who is working in Denver.