Arrangements to dine at JDH’s club.
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Arrangements to dine at JDH’s club.
Thanks WS for information about moss roses and the Le Compte family.
Mentions WS’s recent papers on inheritance [Brit. & Foreign Med.-Chirurg. Rev. (1867)].
Acknowledges his election as a Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg.
Sends copy of a paper on his flock of sheep, which confirms much of what CD says in Variation,
together with a note he made of an instance of cattle "determining the existence" of a tree [cf. Origin, ch. 3].
Payment of 400 guineas [Variation royalties] delights CD.
Sends sheets with alterations to be made [in Russian translation of Variation]. VOK should consider adding to the title-page that CD is a Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences (St Petersburg).
Proportions of sexes of the silkworm are about equal, but knows of no statistics.
Cannot share his view of origin of species.