Response to ARW’s MS on geological time ["The measurement of geological time", Nature 1 (1870): 399–401, 452–5].
Groans over [what is said about] man.
Showing 1–12 of 12 items
Response to ARW’s MS on geological time ["The measurement of geological time", Nature 1 (1870): 399–401, 452–5].
Groans over [what is said about] man.
Sends MS [of chs. 3 and 4, "Comparison of the mental powers of man and the lower animals", Descent] to HED for her criticism. CD fears parts are too much like a sermon; "who wd ever have thought I shd turn parson?"
Thanks for a woodcut sent by ARW for Descent.
Congratulations on his removal from London,
and praise of his review of Francis Galton ["Hereditary genius", Nature 1 (1870): 501–3]. CD agrees with every word of it.
Appreciation of eulogy in preface of ARW’s book [Theory of natural selection].
Crossing experiments and self-sterility [in Eschscholzia].
Pangenesis.
Hermann Müller on insect adaptations for fertilisation of flowers.
CD working on book on man and sexual selection.
CD sends a "curious drawing" [missing] relating to imitation and protection.
Mentions passage on gestures in EBT’s Early history of mankind [1865].
Asks Tylor whether the deaf and dumb use opposite signs for objects, qualities, etc., of an opposite nature.
Despite HBJ’s good aid, CD’s stomach will not permit a visit.
Mimicry in Lepidoptera.
Sexual selection.
The Franco-Prussian war.
Thanks for the information sent by WGS in his letter of 4 November 1870.
Praise for ARW’s reply [Nature 3 (1870): 49–50] to a paper by A. W. Bennett ["Natural selection from a mathematical point of view", Nature 3 (1870): 30–3] holding that mind is a leading cause of variation.
Is reading proof of his "confounded book" [Descent].
Explains why he has declined writing a review for Messrs Appleton.