Sends short testimonial [missing] for RBS, but doubts its value as he has has already given one for the same office [to A. G. Butler, see 11888].
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Sends short testimonial [missing] for RBS, but doubts its value as he has has already given one for the same office [to A. G. Butler, see 11888].
Asks for information about his grandfather’s influence on medical practice, to be used in his preface to Erasmus Darwin [1879, p. 107].
Has signed a paper [unspecified];
thanks HW for his interesting letter and kind expressions about himself and his son.
Thanks for offer of sandstone with annelid tracks.
Suggests J. W. Judd, "most able of living geologists", as lecturer.
Asks GRW if there is any easy systematic work on Lepidoptera for his sons. Considers making out the names from descriptions fine practice for the intellect; mere collecting is idle work.
Asks to meet EB for a walk in the Zoological Gardens.
Is so unwell he must cancel appointment to meet at Zoological Gardens.
Many of EB’s remarks about Origin [4th ed. (1866)] are new to CD.
Thinks of writing a short essay on man.
Struck by EB’s remarks about orang. They are similar to Carl Vogt’s remarks on origin of man from distinct ape families.
Thinks similarity of orang to Malay must be accidental.
Will send Variation when it is published.
Has found EB’s MS most interesting and valuable. Fully half the facts were new to him; will probably use some.
Glad to hear about colours of Hylobates.
Cannot find any statement about which digits in man are most subject to syndactylism in Isidore Geoffroy [Saint-Hilaire]’s Histoire des anomalies [1832–7].
Asks questions concerned with seasonal and sexual changes in plumage of various bird species.
Does male woodpecker share in incubation?
Thanks EB for his attempts to find out about the mandrills;
sorry to hear that he has been so badly treated by the manager of Land and Water.
Thanks correspondent for sending extracts about the jackal.
Thanks recipient for memoir on fossil plants of the Devonian and Upper Silurian.
Orders some salts for plant experiments.
Thanks GRW for his sympathy on his ill health. Feels better lately.
Sends thanks to G. P. Deshayes for his advice.
Asks what "original work" GRW has begun so his name will become better known.
Returns letters [from her son, J. D. Hooker, in India].
Asks that B. H. Hodgson’s zoological pamphlets be sent to him at Athenaeum.