On a "remarkable" letter from Fritz Müller [see 7820] about mimicry, protection, and sexual selection.
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On a "remarkable" letter from Fritz Müller [see 7820] about mimicry, protection, and sexual selection.
Discusses revising his North American Review article [see 7829] for publication as a pamphlet in England.
Plans to publish a further article on phyllotaxy.
John Lubbock’s paper [? "Remarks on stone implements from western Africa", Rep. BAAS 40 (1870): 154–5] opposes some of his best sustained conclusions.
Sends abstract of a paper on hybridity read by Edward Moore to a natural history club in Rochester, NY. Argues the necessity of hybridity on CD’s theory.
Opinions on Descent.
Sexual selection and mimicry in Lepidoptera; sexual selection as an aid to protective imitation.
Comments on TP’s work on mimicry.
Thanks for book he is sending [Wissenschaftliches System der Mimik und Physiognomik (1867)].
Thanks for the photographs, which are "very good".
AG hopes to meet CD’s sons, who are visiting America.
Sends enclosure for ARW to read.
Lengthy discussion of William Thomson’s address [BAAS, Edinburgh 1871].
Sends a series of factual corrections to Variation and Descent: barking of coyotes and colour of wild American horses.
Has read Thomson’s address with "greatest interest", but JDH has said exactly what he [CD] thinks of it.
Herschel’s was a good sneer. It made him add the Raphael Madonna simile in Descent [2: 142].
Sends notes on Fritz Müller’s letter.
Asks WWB to send 8 grains of acetate of strychnine by post.
On the malar bone [see Descent 1: 124].
Has verified hermaphroditism of Serranus and other fishes as normal [see Descent 1: 208].
Mentions experiments on Lythrum.
Thanks for list of seeds.
Sorry he will be away when CD comes down.
Congratulations on Henrietta Darwin’s engagement.
CD’s comments on proofs of JL’s book [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].
Sends on letter from Hacon about Captain Litchfield’s will.
Differences in violet and honeysuckle cases.
Huxley basted Thomson awfully in Section D [of BAAS].