Sends quotation from Armand Trousseau, Lectures on clinical medicine [1868–72] 5: 213, on interruption of menstruation in young girls upon changing schools, as an example of the effect of changed conditions of life.
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Sends quotation from Armand Trousseau, Lectures on clinical medicine [1868–72] 5: 213, on interruption of menstruation in young girls upon changing schools, as an example of the effect of changed conditions of life.
Sutton says monkeys often vomit, but cannot say whether they do it voluntarily.
Statement of sales of U. S. editions of Origin and Descent.
Answers CD’s questions on arrangements for forthcoming publication of Expression – including cost of stereotypes, woodcuts, and photo reproductions for foreign translations.
CD’s letter inviting him to visit did not reach him till he returned home.
Has sent CD’s letter to Nature [see 8448].
Expresses admiration for H. C. Bastian’s The beginnings of life [1872] and comments on its bearing upon Origin.
Sends Murray’s cheque for £315 for the last issue of Descent.
Details regarding foreign editions of Expression.
Sends synopsis of his paper "On diversity of evolution" [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 11 (1873): 496–505] in which he attempts to show some of the means, other than natural selection, of modification of species.
So far VOK has lost money on his translation of Descent because of pirate editions.
Agrees to share profits on Expression.
Wishes to come to Down to make arrangements for Russian translation of Expression.
Agrees on price for supplying Appleton with Expression electrotypes and stereotypes. Difficulties with heliotypes [for illustrations of Expression].
CD cannot omit mention of Wilhelm Wundt’s Thierseele [Vorlesungen über die Menschen und Thierseele (1863)] in his book.
Murray could control the number of copies of translation of Expression sold in Russia by the number of heliotypes he will supply.
The buck is well; Dr Carter has returned, and things will go better.
Is satisfied with CD’s arrangement with Murray for Appleton’s to pay $50 [pounds or dollars!?] for stereo plates and clichés of 21 woodblocks for CD’s new book [Expression, see 8217]. Has ordered 5000 sets of plate impressions from Robert Cooke at Murray’s.
Explains the cost of heliotype plates [for Expression] and the consequent need to raise the price of the book.
Sends a set of plates [for Expression]. Price of the book must be 12s instead of 10s 6d, or 14s instead of 12s.
Hostility of birds toward others with same colour;
nuptial plumage.
Spiza cyanea and Spiza ciris.
Parallel quotations from Benjamin Franklin and Descent about absorption of heat by different colours; applies to winter and summer plumage of birds.
Reasoning power in dogs.
Cost of plates [for Expression] is very high and will make "a terrible hole in the profits".
VOK is marking the passages [in Wundt, Menschen und Thierseele (1863)] that may interest CD.