Did not think anyone would notice case of Lathyrus.
Recalls reading correspondent’s paper on great fir woods of Hampshire.
Thanks for photograph.
Did not think anyone would notice case of Lathyrus.
Recalls reading correspondent’s paper on great fir woods of Hampshire.
Thanks for photograph.
Thanks for note; sends photograph taken by one of his sons.
His continued ill-health has prevented him making the acquaintance of many.
MS arrived. Has glanced at it and sees he must put on his sharpest spectacles and best considering cap.
Bad month of sickness. John Chapman’s ice bag on spine.
Does not quite agree with JDH about Lubbock’s plagiarism charges. Lyell’s memory must have failed him.
Reports a monstrous pig that looks like an elephant. It was born of a pregnant sow which had been frightened by a circus elephant. He offers the monster, which died at birth, to any London museum.
Has lost time through illness.
Suggests an experiment to see whether the progeny of a pigeon cross are affected by a previous impregnation.
JDH on the Lyell–Lubbock plagiarism controversy. His view of the true cause of Lubbock’s behaviour.
There is no chance of publication [of Variation] by autumn, because of CD’s illness.
Thanks for note; mentions borrowing and returning volumes. Orders a volume containing a paper by R. J. H. Dutrochet ["Recherches sur la volubilité des tiges de certains végétaux et sur la cause de ce phénomène", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 19 (1844): 295–303].
Notes that his health is better.
Agrees with JDH on Lyell–Lubbock controversy except that Lubbock’s printed note does not seem to him insulting. Hopes JDH can heal the breach.
Believes GM’s reported monstrosity is not rare. Does not believe it resulted from the effect of the imagination of the mother on her offspring.
Reports on progress of ice treatment.
Impressed by Tylor’s book [see 4836].
Encloses admirable note from Huxley on Lyell–Lubbock affair.
Sends Fritz Müller citation as CD requested.
Huxley is boldly proclaiming his Darwinism at Royal Institution ["Methods and results of ethnology", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4: 460–3; also Collected essays 7 (1894)].
Thanks for CD’s photograph.
JL’s book [Prehistoric times (1865)] is "most original".
Wishes him success in politics.
Recommends J. W. Kayes’ book [History of the Sepoy War, vol. 1 (1864)].
Wife improving.
Glad CD liked Huxley’s letter.
Not an admirer of Kingsley.
Delighted at CD’s praise of his book [Prehistoric times (1865)].
CD’s paper on "Climbing plants" [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 1–118] has made nature come alive for CK.
Huxley’s capital, witty letter.
Charles Kingsley has written of his interest in "Climbing plants".
Health has been very bad.