Discusses arrangements for American edition of Variation.
Observations on apparently inherited instinct in a dog.
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Discusses arrangements for American edition of Variation.
Observations on apparently inherited instinct in a dog.
Sends stamps to the value of 1s. 1d. and asks for parcel to be sent to 6 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square, London.
Answers for father, who is ill, on difference between manes of stallions and mares.
Asks ADB to perform experiment on colour perception in bower-bird.
Asks for rabbit specimens.
THH’s offer to read proof of essay on man encourages CD to write with satisfaction instead of a vague dread.
Begs Mrs Huxley not to forget corrugator supercilii in a crying child.
Recommends J. Scott’s paper on crossing varieties of Verbascum.
Notes on the taxonomy of Primula.
On the proportion of sexes in crabs; coloration and structural differences.
Corrections [incorporated in 2d issue of Variation].
Suggests, if further notice is to be taken of Variation, that the reviewer grapple with the subject of Pangenesis. Thanks him for his fair and friendly spirit.
Amazed that Hugo von Mohl and E. M. Fries are not foreign members of Royal Society; Thomson going over the whole matter.
Candolle’s contribution to botany.
Lubbock shocked about Wollaston.
CD’s answer to Greg was capital.
Comments on Variation.
Charles Murchison’s work on Falconer’s Memoirs [Palaeontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer (1868)] and JDH on Falconer.
Thanks CD for the gift of his new work [Variation].
Statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin.
Questions arising in German translation of Variation; its sales prospects. CD from the first has said it was very doubtful that the book was worth translating.
Thanks WL for sending congratulations [on George Darwin’s attaining Second Wrangler].
Relays news about Sedgwick’s condition.
Has finished a large book on variation.
Comments on Wollaston’s troubles
and his book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].
Mohl’s claim to foreign membership in Royal Society very strong.
Has been in despair about Variation – not worth a fifth part of the labour it cost him.
Is reading F. A. W. Miquel’s Flora du Japon [Prolusio florae Japonicae (1866–7)]; wonders whether A. Murray could be correct in his view that an area of the sea prevented Asiatico-Japan flora colonising western N. America.
Comments on A. Murray’s book [Geographical distribution of mammals (1866)].
His Majesty the King of Prussia has conferred upon CD the Order, Pour le Mérite, for Sciences and Arts.
Congratulates [G. H. Darwin] on being Second Wrangler.
Thanks CD for Variation.
Sends some Australian boiled beef for CD to sample.
Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge.
Discussion of the pig in light of CD’s Variation.
Work of Hermann von Nathusius [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].