Sends information on composition of chalk at Shoreham and Folkestone.
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Sends information on composition of chalk at Shoreham and Folkestone.
Response to 6th ed. of Origin. CD’s answer to Mivart on initial stages of modifications is complete; the "eye and ear objection" is not handled so satisfactorily.
A. S. Packard would like to visit CD to pay his respects.
Down parish and family matters.
JM arranges to pay CD for the latest issue of Descent.
Wishes to use some of Fritz Müller’s observations in his paper on mimicry.
CD’s reply and Huxley’s article ["Mr Darwin’s critics", Contemp. Rev. 18 (1871): 443–76] have answered all of Mivart’s objections to natural selection as applied to man.
Has just finished his work [? The martyrdom of man (1872)]. The new points are: (1) Negroes have whiskers; (2) their music is sometimes agreeable; (3) the Kaffirs are Negroes.
Plans for visit to CD.
Has failed to discover the signs of earthworm activity that CD described.
On how various human emigrations have supported the work of natural selection.
Defends the view that soil and air account for taller stature of westerners in U. S.
CD insists too strongly, in Descent, on man’s origin from a simian ancestor, rather than some other primate.
Will see CD tomorrow.
Describes habits of worms.
Discusses Leersia experiments.
Received copy of Origin 6th ed. Has had trouble with worm measurements at Winchester.
A. G. Butler has named the specimens sent by CD with Fritz Müller’s letter.
Sends several facts relating to sexual selection, mimicry, and hybrids.
Discusses the possibility that mimicked and mimicking forms have descended from originally allied forms and have diverged in structure but not in appearance.
CD is urged to increase to 20 his shares in the Artizans, Labourers & General Dwellings Co. Ltd. Many prominent people have done so.
Endorses revised statement about Butler’s odd hereditary habit;
describes a séance at William Crookes’s.
Sends two vines for CD’s experiments, with instructions for grafting.
Mentions a hybrid plum–peach.
Data relating to experiments; shrinkage of earth on drying.
Sends, for signature, a statement approving change in rules of the Leopoldino Academy [Dresden] to be forwarded to CD to sign.