Does not like the photos; thinks they should try again.
Last account of Susan Darwin reports she is having a good deal of faintness.
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Does not like the photos; thinks they should try again.
Last account of Susan Darwin reports she is having a good deal of faintness.
Mrs Hooker will not come with him to Down on Saturday.
Caroline says Jos [Wedgwood III] is "much pulled down".
Will be glad to see her on 4th.
Thinks Hensleigh is getting better, very slowly.
CD’s sudden temporary failure of memory and his eczema are not serious and would be relieved by rest and good diet.
Would like to come to Down on 20th or 21st.
Woolner is unwell.
Has been working with G. R. Crotch on stridulation. The sexual theory seems very shaky.
Is sending preparations of beetles.
Observations on the first appearance of tears in a baby.
Crying in babies.
Pleased to come on 17th.
Is arranging the Aucuba experiment.
Sends some letters for CD’s perusal.
Asks what CD thinks of Huxley’s address [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): xxviii–liii].
Would be glad to have Drosophyllum plants.
Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.
CD much obliged for specimen and drawings.
Trying to persuade CD to visit JL.
Glad to hear of the plant; CD instructs WED to make further observations. If it is a good case he will insist on WED’s sending a communication to the Linnean Society.
CD sends thanks to Mr Noel for allowing him to see article [sent by Alice Bonham-Carter, see 4722]. CD is pleased at Bernhard von Cotta’s remarks on species; very few of the older distinguished geologists have so favourable a view of his work. He was particularly pleased to read Cotta’s remarks on the azoic formations.
CD and ED bequeath an annuity of £50 to J. Parslow [the Darwins’ butler].
Health very bad. All scientific work stopped for 2½ months.
E. B. Tylor’s Early history of mankind [1865] impresses him.
Would like JDH’s opinion of last number of Spencer’s [Principles of] Biology [vol. 1 (1864)], especially on umbellifers. CD not satisfied with Spencer’s views on irregular flowers.
ED reports on CD’s health.
Relates some observations for CD on the crying of her infant daughter.
Too late to observe baby’s tears.
Observed expression in her baby for CD.