Will send CD a deerhound puppy.
Reaffirms his statement that dogs in breeding form decided preferences toward each other, based on size, colour, or character.
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Will send CD a deerhound puppy.
Reaffirms his statement that dogs in breeding form decided preferences toward each other, based on size, colour, or character.
CD’s deerhound puppy will be ready soon.
Delay in sending deerhound puppy.
Glad "Bran" [deerhound puppy] arrived safely.
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent.
On reception of Descent in Edinburgh.
Anecdote about a dog helping another by separating combatants.
Praise for Expression.
Missed hostile review of Expression in Edinburgh Review. Agrees it might be by J. H. Stirling [see 8935], who has written in a deplorably polemical style on Huxley and Sir William Hamilton.
J. V. Carus’ lecture.
Edinburgh intellectual climate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s visit to Edinburgh.
J. H. Stirling did not write anonymous review of Expression in Edinburgh Review. Suggests T. Spencer Baynes of St Andrews. [? T. S. Baynes, "Darwin on expression", 137 (1873): 492–528.]
Responds to CD’s queries about breeders’ practices in destroying and saving males or females in litters of deerhounds.
Will send CD’s query to eight or ten people.
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent, 2d ed.