Aggressive behaviour of dogs and horses.
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Aggressive behaviour of dogs and horses.
Rabbits still running true; hopes to increase alien blood to 30%.
Will send deerhound puppy.
Is critical of Herbert Spencer.
Expression in horses.
Crying in babies.
Sends his "Charles Darwin, eine biographische Skizze" [Das Ausland 2 Apr 1870].
About the insertion of a column on marriage of cousins in the census form.
Good news: one little rabbit has a white forefoot.
Answers to CD’s queries on expression; observations on the facial expressions of the insane.
On death of his wife. Botany a solace.
Asks CD to review Wallace’s recent book of essays [Natural selection (1870)], particularly the new essay, which questions the applicability of natural selection to man.
Announces CD’s election as Honorary Member of the Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou.
Responds to CD’s request for Canna seeds.
Studying dichogamy in Lotus. Describes mechanism that pumps pollen on to a visiting bee. Corrects Axell on Lotus.
Concern over Wallace’s book [Contributions to the theory of natural selection (1870)] and its apparent backsliding from Darwinian theory. HWB suggests that only CD is capable of criticising the book.
HWB hopes not too much was made over his few comments on man in M. F. Somerville’s book [Physical geography, revised ed. (1870)].
Willy is back from New Zealand. JDH perturbed by what to do with him.
J. W. Dawson’s Bakerian lecture for Royal Society is full of errors, and JDH is forced to recommend that it not be published. [An abstract of the lecture was published: "On the pre-Carboniferous floras of north-eastern America", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 18 (1869–70): 333–5.]
Behaviour of ants.
Not discouraged by F. Müller’s Passiflora.
Observations on insects visiting barberries.
Has finished the article [on the action of the eyelids in Ned. Arch. Geneeskd. & Natuurkd. 5 (1870), also see 7238]; summarises: the occlusion of the eyelids protects the vessels, and the eye itself, against the danger of pressure caused by excessive expiratory action. The weakness of the conclusion is that the extent of the danger caused by the pressure to the normal state of the eye is not precisely known.
A detailed description of the physiological and anatomical processes related to the prolonged involuntary contraction of the orbicular muscles and the secretion of tears (as in retching, violent coughing, or laughing). [See Expression, p. 160.].
Writes of CD’s recent visit to Cambridge and the joy it gave him.
Is surprised to find CD disagrees about the argus [see 7229]. TWW finds others he has consulted, including Edward Blyth, agree with him.