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Discusses error in CD’s calculation of natural increase of elephants.
Includes extract from Origin.
HCFJ’s review of the Origin was the wittiest and in some respects the best written.
Thanks him for his Electricity and magnetism [1873].
Hopes that Charles Lyell has enjoyed his excursion.
Observations on her pet pug.
Recipient is to stay with CD;
sender relates some observations of dogs and birds, to be passed on to CD.
Is trying to persuade "our friend" [T. H. Huxley?] to accept a gift.
Having now read Expression, WM repeats his criticism of "antithesis". Explains his theory of up-and-down-tending lines.
The impossibility of conceiving that the universe arose through chance is the chief argument for the existence of God, but CD has never been able to decide whether this is an argument of real value. Safest to believe that the subject is beyond man’s intellect, "but man can do his duty".
Anxious to have GHD come home because of his poor health. Recommends Huxley’s physician (Andrew Clark) – an advocate of milk diet.
Has sent JDH’s letter to Nature ["Perception in ants", Nature 7 (1873): 443–4].
Sons recall kindness received from JDH and others in America.