Queries concerned with translating vol. 2 of Variation.
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Queries concerned with translating vol. 2 of Variation.
Thanks CD for present [of Variation].
Congratulates CD on success of his son George in mathematical tripos.
Gives his speculative thoughts on geographical, political, and biological factors in the origin and development of human races.
Thanks for Variation. Expects to be made more ashamed by his ignorance of the "influence of inheritance on the variations and mixtures of disease".
Congratulations on George’s attaining Second Wrangler.
Variation has just arrived. Wishes he had two heads or a body that needed no rest.
Many thanks for the book [Variation].
Congratulates CD on son’s [George’s] distinction [Second Wrangler] at Cambridge.
Thanks CD for sending him Variation and for honouring his name by its frequent mention in the work.
Congratulations on George Darwin’s performance at Cambridge.
Thanks for copy of CD’s latest book [Variation].
European converts to CD’s theory.
Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge
and CD’s world-wide reputation.
Notes on the taxonomy of Primula.
On the proportion of sexes in crabs; coloration and structural differences.
Corrections [incorporated in 2d issue of Variation].
Amazed that Hugo von Mohl and E. M. Fries are not foreign members of Royal Society; Thomson going over the whole matter.
Candolle’s contribution to botany.
Lubbock shocked about Wollaston.
CD’s answer to Greg was capital.
Comments on Variation.
Charles Murchison’s work on Falconer’s Memoirs [Palaeontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer (1868)] and JDH on Falconer.
Thanks CD for the gift of his new work [Variation].
His Majesty the King of Prussia has conferred upon CD the Order, Pour le Mérite, for Sciences and Arts.
Congratulates [G. H. Darwin] on being Second Wrangler.
Thanks CD for Variation.
Sends some Australian boiled beef for CD to sample.
Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge.
Discussion of the pig in light of CD’s Variation.
Work of Hermann von Nathusius [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].