Thanks correspondent for present of book [unspecified].
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Thanks correspondent for present of book [unspecified].
Asks for copy of [unspecified] essay, but will not answer it.
Urges publication of an exposure of Williams the spiritualist medium.
CD sends thanks for further instructions for making a solution, which will be followed as soon as Francis [Darwin] returns.
Thanks correspondent for sending paper on molluscs.
[Excised fragment only.] "I am greedy for facts.—"
Sends a copy of the paper [with A. R. Wallace, "On the tendency of species to form varieties" (1858), Collected papers 2: 3–19] about which his correspondent asked; CD’s parts were written years ago and not intended for publication; he gave permission for publication of the extracts. Wallace’s paper seems to him excellent.
Ray Society has given CD 22 copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1].
Returns the Greenland catalogue, which he has kept too long.
Thanks correspondent for book on old bones.
Asks for information about cases for stove-plants. [Answers recorded in another hand.]
The apparent difference in arm lengths of compositors is due to a drooping shoulder. File-makers stand in a peculiar position and call one of their legs the hind leg.
Has not seen K. E. von Baer’s paper ["Über Papuas und Alfuren", Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg (Sci. Nat.) 8 (1859): 269–346], but has read extract.
Knew of case of hairy and toothless family through John Crawfurd, Journal of an embassy from the Governor-General of India [2d ed. (1834)].
Working on causes of variability.
Declines offer of book on physics.
Thanks correspondent for item of criticism in a foreign newspaper.
Declines to join movement; has not sufficiently considered subject.
CD has lost his reference to cross between gold and silver pheasants.
Thanks recipient for information about eye colour of his shepherd dogs.
Comments on ability of recipient to move his scalp.
Printed memorandum giving reasons why there should be subsidy on a large scale of scientific research unencumbered with teaching.