Sends three sheets but keeps one. Suggests looking at a curved field on the way to Orpington.
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Sends three sheets but keeps one. Suggests looking at a curved field on the way to Orpington.
Action of earthworms and weather on surface soil of old earthworks and fortifications.
Varying depth of top-soil in a ridge-and-furrow field with a depression.
After reading Descent sends two instances of men and animals using the same muscles to express similar emotional states.
Is obliged for valuable letter [see 8123] and encloses queries about the manner of gradual obliteration of ridges or furrows in old pasture lands in various parts of England.
Gives details of his experiment to test his observations of the downward flow of worm-casts.
Refers to [Lyon] Playfair, [A. C.] Ramsay, and AG’s edition of [J. B.] Jukes, [A student’s manual of geology, 3d ed., 1872].
Gives his account of H. M. Butler’s apparently inherited habit.
Discussion of H. Spencer’s views on the origin of music.
Gives publication date for J. C. Lavater, L’Art de connaître les hommes, 1806–9, edited by J. L. Moreau. The first four volumes appeared in 1806.
Sends abstract, and will bring book on Saturday.
Summarises her theory about expression in music.
Sends MS chapter on voice from Expression to HL for examination.
Agrees with R. B. Litchfield about Herbert Spencer’s views on speech and music.
Sends a copy of Orchids for his wife, T. M. Story-Maskelyne, and a few other items she may wish to have.
Climbing Plants may be purchased at Williams and Norgate; he has no clean copies.
Thanks CD for papers he sent his wife. They will help her pass her time as an invalid.
Asks FW to thank F. P. Cobbe for her liberal offer, but the differences [between Descent and Cobbe’s review "Darwinism in morals", Theol. Rev. 33 (1871): 167–92] are too fundamental to be reconciled.
Describes fly-catching activity of Drosera longifolia.
Experiments on Papilio asterias; sex of adult determined by length of larval feeding time.
Sends MS of section on voice as a means of expression [Expression, pp. 86–93]. CD is dissatisfied with it – wishes he could avoid the subject.