Report of wild ass crossed with tame one in India.
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Report of wild ass crossed with tame one in India.
Returns to CD a corrected proof [of "Fritz Müller on a frog having eggs on its back", Nature 19 (1878–9): 462–4].
Discusses adaptations of the pupae of, and Fritz Müller’s work on, Trichoptera.
Sends suggestions for CD’s preface to Erasmus Darwin.
Offers to translate [E. Krause’s] "Erasmus Darwin" for £10.
Thanks CD for signing his certificate for the Royal Society.
Repeats his willingness to translate E. Krause’s "Erasmus Darwin".
Urges Frank to reconsider his refusal of Cambridge Examinership.
Asks if CD would like to subscribe to a reprint of Edward Blyth’s Field articles on cranes.
Had doubts about excerpt from Anna Seward’s book [Life of Dr Darwin]. Sends slightly enlarged version of his "Erasmus Darwin". Includes footnote denouncing Seward’s book.
Finds that part 2 of ED’s Botanic garden, 2d ed. (1790), appeared before part 1 (1791).
Thanks for sketch of Erasmus Darwin by John Dowson [see Erasmus Darwin, p. iv]; would like to incorporate this information into MS. Previous biographers of Erasmus Darwin had insufficient knowledge of what appeared in his works.
Sends his photograph as requested.
Cattle and sheep varieties removed from their native soils degenerate rapidly.
Regrets she has none of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s letters. Relates some anecdotes concerning her grandfather.
Notes and a copy of a letter written by ESG to John Dowson of Whitby. Expresses her opinion of the biographies of Erasmus Darwin written by Mrs Schimmelpenninck and Anna Seward.
They have never had any Erasmus Darwin letters.
Sends photographs [of Elston Hall].
Sends a book by her uncle, Charles Darwin [1758–78], and recounts some details of the life of her grandfather, Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Sends Dr Erasmus Darwin’s commonplace book, some letters, and poems.
Family news.
Wants to finish revision of MS on Erasmus Darwin before Dallas begins translation. Has discussed possible German edition with Carl Alberts.
Sends drawings of several of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s residences, together with suggestions of sources of other material.
Has succeeded in obtaining Assistant Keeper’s post.
Believes it would be interesting and valuable to study the variation in organs such as scent-fans and "strigillating" [stridulating?] organs among related species of Lepidoptera.
Asks CD to join W. H. Flower and Huxley in signing a memorial in support of Dr Coues. He is a U.S. Army surgeon who has been working on an ornithological bibliography and needs support to complete his work in England.