Birthday wishes.
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Birthday wishes.
Statement of U.S. sales of CD’s works.
Cites evolutionary passages by Alexander Braun in English edition of Braun’s Verjüngung [1853].
A stonemason who has read Origin and Descent and defends CD’s theory against theological prejudice, would like to read CD’s other books but is too poor to afford them.
Sends regards from Capt. Charles Owen, who had collected beetles for CD.
Owen’s son is going to Oregon with Wallis Nash.
Has arranged for publication of his translation of Weismann.
S. H. Scudder article on sexual dimorphism in butterflies [Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 12 (1877): 150–8].
£100 has arrived and LW will set to work.
GH no longer believes in the value of cross-fertilisation in plants.
Sends birthday wishes.
Comments on progress of CD’s theory in Germany. Mentions opposition of Rudolf Virchow and his reply Freie Wissenschaft und freie Lehre [1878].
Describes research trip to Brittany and Normandy.
Research on Challenger Radiolaria.
Birthday congratulations from the editors of Kosmos. They will mark the occasion with a special number of Kosmos.
Birthday greetings.
Has sent copy of his new book, Colour-sense [1879]; in anticipation of criticism, he justifies his reliance on recorded observations rather than experiments, by the heavy demands of his career as a journalist.
Seventieth birthday greetings.
Seventieth birthday greetings.
Send 70th birthday congratulations.
Birthday wishes.
HM’s teaching methods and his ideas are under attack in Germany along with the works of Ernst Krause.
Directs CD where to find tools in his room. Has been looking at agave and aloe flowers. Thanks family for their letters.
Outlines his theory to explain the form of certain Swedish sandhills and puts forward his ideas regarding the geological history of the earth.
Second request that CD sign a Cambridge memorial [i.e., petition]. The heading has been amended to include graduates who have formerly studied medicine.