Reports that he has the power of moving his left ear towards the top of his head [see Descent 1: 21].
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Reports that he has the power of moving his left ear towards the top of his head [see Descent 1: 21].
Delighted with John Traherne Moggridge’s book [Harvesting ants (1873)].
Has suggested he plant seeds in various receptacles. Only two explanations for failure of seeds to germinate [in ants’ nests]: lack of circulating air or formic acid.
Has undertaken a botany primer for Macmillan.
Will see whether formic acid delays germination of fresh seeds.
Thinks primer not at all a folly. Refers JDH to Asa Gray’s "child’s book" [see 8363].
Comments on CD’s and William Huggins’ letter in Nature on "Inherited instinct" [Collected papers 2: 170–1]
and on A. R. Wallace’s letter on the homing faculty of animals. Believes many instances of homing are less remarkable than they appear.
CD is asked to increase his shares in the Artizans, Labourers, & General Dwellings Co. Ltd., which has trebled its capital in the last year and is paying a 6% dividend.
Sends pamphlet on punishment in education [Punishments in education, read at Social Science Congress, 1872] in response to Expression. Proposes that character can be diagnosed from expression.
Thanks CD for comments on Die Kalkschwämme.
Plans trip to Greece, Asia Minor, and Egypt.
Discusses work of a Polish translator, Ludwik Masłowski.
Asks for references to works on CD’s views for a paper he is preparing.
Thanks CD for Expression.
Suggests saving some anthropoid Quadrumana from extinction by taming and studying them in their own environments to learn about their development.
Sends "squib" he has written exposing the folly of some of Louis Agassiz’s ideas. AG cannot "fire off [his] cracker" in U. S. so sends it to amuse CD. If it is sent to Nature, CD must not give AG’s name. [See "Survival of the fittest", Nature 7 (1873): 404].
Additional errata in Descent.
Sends a paper on behaviour he has observed in ants.
Winter in Duluth.
HAH is leaning toward spiritualism.
Limit of natural and sexual selection.
Has been around the world three times.
CD answers a question about the attitude of foreign naturalists towards Darwinism by distinguishing between the belief in evolution and belief in natural selection. Gives the views of [Louis] Agassiz, [R. A.] Kölliker, [C. W.] Nägeli, [Ernst] Häckel, [C. F. W.] Claus, [F. J.] Cohn, Alphonse de Candolle, [J. L.] Claparède, Asa Gray, Gaston de Saporta, [E. D.] Cope, and [Carl] Gegenbaur.
Sends his book [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)]. Hopes CD will publish an opinion of it.
Hopes JC-B thinks that CD has properly acknowledged his debt in Expression.
Gives a case of peculiar behaviour in cats that apparently is inherited.
Thanks for Expression. Will write paper on it in next [July] West Riding Asylum Medical Report.
Sends photos of lunatics;
will send notes corroborative of CD’s views, including some on "hereditarily transmitted movements".
Although he believes in evolution, TM feels that natural selection is an inadequate cause;
nor is he satisfied with E. D. Cope’s law of acceleration and retardation.
Discusses some of his work relating to nutrition and sex and colour and sex.
Recounts the difficulties in preparing the French translation of Origin: the 1870 war, the illness and death of J. J. Moulinié, the alterations and additions from the 6th English edition. Despite competition from Royer’s three editions, Reinwald is contemplating a new edition.
Descent, vol. 1, has almost sold out. Offers CD £40 for rights to reprint a corrected version of Descent.