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Supplies evidence to the contrary of CD’s assertion in Expression that dogs do not eat carrion.
Offers to send mud-wasps.
On supernumerary mammae in a male patient.
On proportion of sexes in litters of greyhounds.
Sends his screed about the brain [for Descent], which he thinks pounds the enemy into a jelly.
Is in good health.
Sends some phosphates of lime free of animal matter [see Insectivorous plants, p. 109].
His note on the brain should be in small type.
Glad CD agrees with him on hand, foot, and skull question.
Has heard from Dohrn.
Sends queries [on proofs of Descent, 2d ed.]. Will be finished, except for the index, in two days.
Is now less satisfied than formerly with his statistics on cousin marriage.
[Enclosure is a copy by GHD of J. S. Mill’s statement about Origin (Logic 2: 18 n.).]
Sends Descent material. Is staggered by CD’s power of marshalling facts and his conciseness and clearness of thought. The only fault he finds is some slight want of conciseness of diction.
He feels CD’s power more now "that I quail before the thought of arranging the few paltry facts I’ve got about those d––d cousins".
The memorial failed last autumn. She asks for CD’s signature again so that it may be presented now that there is a new Government.
Her [Wedgwood] Handbook is now in press.
Affirms his belief in an impassable spiritual gulf between man and the lower creatures.
Reply to CD’s letter in Nature ["Flowers of the primrose", Collected papers 2: 183–4]. She has a canary that eats primroses.
Purpose of experiments was to determine digestive activity of liquids containing pepsin. Gives required amounts of hydrochloric, propionic, butyric and valerianic acids. Describes experiment and gives results. Also experimented on digestive activity of butyric acid at greater temperatures than the termperature of the body.
Sends cherry blossoms damaged by birds in response to CD’s letter in Nature ["Flowers of the primrose", Collected papers 2: 183–4].
Asks CD’s support for his application for the Chair of Geology at Oxford.
Bullfinches’ instinctive capacity for removing nectaries from cowslips.
Further particulars on pea-fowl.
Thanks for recent edition of CD’s Journal of researches.
Observations on early shedding of tears and shrugging of shoulders.
Variation in bullfinches’ instinctive ability to remove nectaries and ovaries from cowslips.
He was chagrined to read in Descent CD’s statement that smallpox vaccine has saved thousands of lives. He has found no scientific reason to believe in the prophylactic effect of the vaccine. In epidemic of 1870–1, smallpox killed more vaccinated persons than were killed by cholera, against which there is no vaccine, in 1853–4. Cites the difficulties in arriving at a conclusive proof of vaccine’s effectiveness.
