Has made a wonderful recovery [from riding accident].
Asks for information on blushing and screaming [for Expression].
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Has made a wonderful recovery [from riding accident].
Asks for information on blushing and screaming [for Expression].
A new edition [4th German] of Origin to be published by Schweizerbart. JVC asks CD to send any changes or additions.
Variation has sold two-thirds of the first printing [1868].
Hopes he may do translation of CD’s new work [Descent].
Thanks JM for Quarterly Review. A. R. Wallace’s article inimitably good – and a triumph that it appears where it will make B[ishop] of O[xford] and Owen gnash their teeth.
Delighted at the sale of F. Müller’s book.
Thinks he has brought Origin up to "present standard of science" [5th ed. (June 1869)].
Slow progress on Descent.
His horse rolled over him, but he is recovering rapidly.
Confirms a request by CD that Murray’s supply electrotypes of Orchids at most reasonable possible price.
SB is founding a natural history society to study the flora and fauna of the southern Slavic countries.
Plans to print portraits of the four most distinguished naturalists and asks for a photograph of CD.
Sends message to CD about development of horns in sheep.
Asks MS whether he will examine adult mandrills and describe the sexual differences in colouring.
On the horns of castrated lambs.