Sends a cheque to clear FD’s debts. Hopes he will be more careful in the future.
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Sends a cheque to clear FD’s debts. Hopes he will be more careful in the future.
Is sending by this post three sheets and will send another tomorrow thus almost completing the part on birds. His congratulations and thanks for PLS’s labours with them.
Believes AG’s cases of incipient dimorphism are due to mere variability. Has found examples in Nolana and Amsinckia; believes such variation is the basis for the development of dimorphism. Was unaware of variations in Phlox.
Sensitivity of Drosera and Dionaea.
Thanks LGK for the part he played in getting CD elected as an Associate [of Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences].
Thanks Academy for his election as Associate Member.
Thanks WO for valuable letter. Feels he need not trouble any more about platysma. If WO ever sees someone suffering great fear, CD asks him to observe the neck.
Hopes to visit WO when next in London.
Thanks BJS for his congratulations [on Leonard Darwin’s success].
CD is "as usual, always ailing and grumbling".
Expects his new book [Descent] to "disgust you & many others".
Thanks CL for his book [The student’s elements of geology (1871)].
Is correcting proofs [of Descent].
Sending two sheets [of Descent]. About one-and-a-half more will complete PLS’s task.
Regrets that Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen has already translated his new book into Dutch.
CD is obliged for PLS’s correction [of Descent proofs]. Will add a caption to the woodcut [of the wart-hog] since it is too late to make a new one.