Discusses [Fritz?] Müller’s confusion about ova and pseudova; JL’s Daphnia paper [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 79–100; see 1979] first demonstrated their structural identity.
Points out a misleading statement in Variation.
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Discusses [Fritz?] Müller’s confusion about ova and pseudova; JL’s Daphnia paper [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 79–100; see 1979] first demonstrated their structural identity.
Points out a misleading statement in Variation.
Found [Variation] full of interest. Has not yet made up his mind about Pangenesis; wants to hear what can be said against it.
JL’s Royal Institution lectures.
Wants information on Fuegian harpoons. Must prepare second edition of Prehistoric times.
Would like to borrow CD’s carriage on polling day.
Arrangements for polling.
JL’s failure to be elected to Parliament.
Thanks for the pamphlets; JL’s paper, "Primitive condition of man" [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 6 (1868): 328].
Visiting arrangements.
Down School funds.
Down School funds.
Asks for reference to Louis Agassiz’s views on embryos indicating ancestral structures.
Has been asked by Henry Powell [new vicar of Down] for help to build a house at Down; asks for CD’s advice.
On the antennae of Labidocera.
Size of sexes in Entomostraca.
Is glad CD likes the new edition [of Prehistoric times].
Has been lecturing in Scotland.
Further arrangements for polling. Everything looks well. [Ellen Lubbock notes, "he is too sanguine – ".]