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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Discusses coral reefs
and encloses a copy of his "Reisebericht" [Z. Wiss. Zool. 13 (1863): 538–70], as requested by CD.
Reports to CD on a spiritualist séance attended by himself (incognito) and G. H. Darwin.
On obtaining Clerk Maxwell’s memoir on Saturn for his wife, Sofya.
CD elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [See 9305.]
Gives his and CD’s thanks for information on consanguinity among parents of asylum inmates.
Discusses THH’s account of the séance. CD convinced all are fraudulent.
On proportion of sexes in births of cattle; variations in families. Encloses a letter from J. G. Grove on proportions of sexes in animals.
The limitation of inbreeding.
Has finished the index [for Descent, 2d ed.].
Agrees with Bates that neuter termites are not modified imagos (sterile females), but modified larvae (of both sexes).
Systematic relations of stingless honey-bees (Melipona and Trigona) are not yet well established.
[Valediction and signature only.]