Notes on Variation and Descent.
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Notes on Variation and Descent.
Dutch translation [of Descent].
Notes about reversion.
Hermaphroditism in fishes.
Polydactylism.
On some errata in Descent.
Sends extracts from a statistical study giving proportion of sexes in [population of] Netherlands.
Wishes to translate Expression into Dutch.
"I have made a serious blunder in p. 297, vol 1 of my book [Descent of man]. Kindly inform me by return of post whether this is printed in Dutch; for if not I will send you a correction in M.S. There are also two short omissions to be made in Vol. 2 … "
Thanks HHHvZ for a memoir
and answers some queries;
mentions some corrections for his Dutch translation of Descent.
Thanks for letter [7533] and the interesting notes. Even more interesting is HHHvZ’s case of the De Haas family.
CD glad to hear of success of translation of Descent.
Will not go to press with Expression for six or nine months; hopes HHHvZ will think it worth translating.