Various observations on sexual selection portion of Descent – ostriches, rosy-billed duck, egrets, rails, etc.
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Various observations on sexual selection portion of Descent – ostriches, rosy-billed duck, egrets, rails, etc.
Thanks CD for one of his books.
Much obliged for seeds. Will expose seeds to chemical vapours.
Comments on JTM’s spider experiments.
Thanks them for their kind letter and interest in his work. Sends photograph.
Sends CD a copy of his book [Die Urgeschichte der Menschheit, 2 vols. (1873)].
In Germany CD’s views have achieved great recognition among naturalists, but in other disciplines there is great controversy. OC’s book seeks to resolve the controversy by showing how state, morals, religion, and church have developed from natural beginnings.
A circular advertising a meeting at the Senate House, Cambridge, on 25 March to discuss a memorial to Professor Adam Sedgwick.
Is glad and proud to honour the memory of Adam Sedgwick [d. 1873].
Thanks for CD’s regrets at AWB’s leaving Nature.
Plans English editions of Asa Gray’s books [How plants grow; How plants behave].
Other publication plans.
Thanks for congratulations on appearance of abstract of HA’s paper [Nature 7 (1873): 343–4].
Explains again his theory of "contraction with twist" by which compact buds and a spiral phyllotaxy have evolved. Explains how the peculiar phyllotaxy of the teasel is explicable by this process of "condensation".
CD has discovered correspondent intends to present a petition to the House of Commons on which CD’s is the sole signature. Asks that his name be erased unless other signatures are added.
Two students express their gratitude and admiration.
Does not understand TM’s views on sex and vitality.
Agrees no real "essences" in genera, only broken groups of species.
Sends £10 subscription for James Murie.
An admirer sends clipping from Bremen newspaper on hybrid between orange and lemon.
Describes his critique of natural selection [Die Lehre Darwins kritisch betrachtet (1871)].
Gives some information on variation of ocelli between sexes in butterfly species.
Proposes publishing a series of papers on mimicry.
H. W. Bates says CD is in town. WWR would like to call.
Discusses expression among the Chinese. Reports certain physical characters and the practice of certain unusual customs.
Thanks for Indian [Medical] Gazette. Comments on article.
Has read several of CD’s books; is curious about his remarks on "movements which are no longer useful but still inherited". Asks CD’s opinion on why people still swing arms with opposite leg in walking.