Thanks correspondent for an interesting paper [unspecified] and his kind remarks about CD’s work.
CD had forgotten Auguste Comte’s "striking observations" on relations of man to lower animals.
Thanks correspondent for an interesting paper [unspecified] and his kind remarks about CD’s work.
CD had forgotten Auguste Comte’s "striking observations" on relations of man to lower animals.
Thanks FCD for information, which will make him "strike out a good deal".
Has received German pamphlet.
Will read work by John Soelberg Wells [? A treatise on the diseases of the eye (1869, 1870)].
Discusses his work on expression.
Asks to borrow "Sölberg Wells, Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye 1869" referred to by F. C. Donders.
Wild plants that live at the edges of civilisation, e.g., forest flowers growing on grazed land, are always reduced in size.
Responds to GdeS’s comments on Descent [see 8246]. Cannot give up belief in close relationship of man to higher Simiae.