Thanks her for marked proof-sheets.
Discusses climate in earlier geological periods.
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Thanks her for marked proof-sheets.
Discusses climate in earlier geological periods.
Thanks for his article Valeur philosophique de l’hypothèse du transformisme (Bertillon 1870), which is very clear.
Would not himself trust so much in Agassiz’s conclusions.
Glad the essay has been published, as he believes ‘there are but few in France who admit the doctrine of evolution’.
Sends CD a ptarmigan.
Discusses movement of ears and contraction of the platysma.
Discusses phyllotaxy, citing work of Carl Nägeli and Chauncey Wright.
The rabbits arrived safely.
Obliged for ESM’s article ["On adaptive coloration of the Mollusca", Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 14 (1870–1): 141–5]. Glad to have error corrected about protective colouring of shells.
Thanks GAE for memoir on earthworms [Bidrag till Skandinaviens Oligochaetfauna (1871)]. CD by chance is just now observing "one little point in their habits". Will be happy to learn something about the places frequented by the various species.
Wishes to have CD’s autograph.
Thanks for the letter, photograph, and kind words about CD’s scientific work. [See 8088.]
CTEvS’s view of pseudova is new to CD;
he has not yet received the recent work on parthenogenesis
though he did receive the memoir on Polistes.
Sends corrections for new French edition of Origin.
Sends sheets [of the 6th ed. of Origin].
Thanks JVC for his letter about the sheep.
Has frequently defended evolution and natural selection among his clergy brethren.
Now elicits CD’s views on chance.
Praise of CD. Acknowledges his indebtedness to CD for defining the subject of plant fecundation.
Expecting CD’s work on the effects of cross-fertilisation.
CD has put him in touch with George Bentham.
Refers GH to vol. 2, p. 431 of Variation for the "perplexed conclusion" at which CD has arrived on variation and design. Has nothing to add to this statement.
Reply to CD’s letter of 5 Apr 1871 [7659], in which he asked HA for further details on when and how platysma myoides contracts.
Replies to CD’s questions about sources on leaf arrangement.
Gives news of speech and paper about CD.
Announces that the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris has elected CD a Foreign Associate.
Requests that PB express his thanks to the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris for the honour conferred upon him [see 8102].
Maoris of New Zealand admire beards, contrary to statement in Descent [2: 349].
Thanks for letter and reference to Nägeli’s observations on leaf arrangement in the bud.
Will be in London until 21st. Would rejoice if JDH could come to lunch during their stay.