It would be an advantage to start printing vol. 1 of Variation [2d ed.] at once, if CD can release it. Knotty problem: the number of copies to be printed.
It would be an advantage to start printing vol. 1 of Variation [2d ed.] at once, if CD can release it. Knotty problem: the number of copies to be printed.
Encloses copy of description of an outgrown stump. Refers to letter [missing] in which CD reports on a case of amputation. Would like to check J. Simpson’s cases before thinking everything is settled.
Thanks for answer to racehorse query;
would be grateful for correction of any errors in Variation.
The question is whether additional digits possess power of regrowth beyond the ordinary. James Paget has convinced CD that they do not. CD must alter what he has published. [See Variation, 2d. ed., 2: 459.]
Many thanks for JDH’s beautiful cirripede drawing. Questions on JDH’s observations.
JDH reports his battle with Lord Henry Lennox over whether to locate new Herbarium on the Queen’s or public part of Garden.
Accepts offer of stereotype plates from Murray for Climbing plants, and will give same terms.
Has only just made Insectivorous plants ready. Long and favourable review just appeared in Times.
Wants to publish Variation and so will approach Judd & Co. [publishers of first U. S. edition (1868)].
Can WDF recall the sex of the deaf white cats.
Digestive fluid in insectivorous plants. RLT’s work on tails.
Sends his review of Insectivorous plants in the Pall Mall Gazette of Vienna.
Shares Hooker’s feelings about Douglas Galton and Lord Henry Lennox.
Bored with preparing new editions.
Thanks for the photographs of disks of stone, but not to trouble to send casts, as he will not work on expression again.
The unreliability of the work of J.-B. Legrain on consanguineous marriages [Recherches critiques et experimentales relatives aux marriages consanguins, extrait du Bull. Acad. R. Med. Belg. 2d ser. 9, no. 3].
Sends errata in Insectivorous plants.
Is correcting proofs of [2d ed. of] Climbing plants, to be published in November. It is, he thinks, worth translating.
A second, much corrected, edition of Variation also will be published.
Thanks for Insectivorous plants.
Describes difficulties in launching Darwinian journal.
Mentions recent criticism of evolution in Germany.
Would like to translate essay on marriage between relatives [by G. H. Darwin, see 9487].
Suggests GHD write a supplement to his review [of A. H. Huth’s The marriage of near kin (1875)]. Feels sorry Huth was taken in by the Legrain fraud. [See Autobiography (1958), pp. 143–4.]
CD’s suspicions that Legrain falsified experiments on interbred rabbits are like second sight. Has sent a copy of the letter to A. H. Huth.
Henry Sidgwick and A. J. Balfour are "spiritualising" again.
Orders Andrew Knight’s paper ["An account of some experiments on the fecundation of vegetables", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. (1799): 195–204] and J. E. Gray’s book [Gleanings from the menagerie and aviary at Knowsley Hall (1846)].
Doubts ostrich descended from reptiles. Its ancestors true birds. Of course, all birds descended from reptiles. Compares foetus of birds to that of reptiles.
Acknowledges presentation copy of Insectivorous plants.
Studying Drosera on vacation in Bohemia. Thinks CD has erred in considering "aggregation" to have occurred in the protoplasm. Suggests it is result of exosmosis of vacuole.