Forwards answers from Charles Walter to some of CD’s queries about expression.
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Forwards answers from Charles Walter to some of CD’s queries about expression.
Informs CD of his reply to Argyll and the North British Review criticisms [in "Creation by law", Q. J. Sci. 4 (1867): 471–88]. Cites "the predicted Madagascar moth" and Angraecum sesquipedale.
Birth of Herbert Spencer Wallace.
Hopes JTM’s health will improve.
Asks for information about crosses of peas.
CD’s sudden temporary failure of memory and his eczema are not serious and would be relieved by rest and good diet.
Asks CD’s help in translating names and descriptions of fowls [in Variation].
Some sheets of Variation have gone astray.
Has received more Variation sheets; some are missing. In a few days the first six chapters of the French translation will be printed.
Anxious to read the second volume [of Variation].
Appreciates "the way in which you [CD] teach us all how to look on, and how to study, nature".
Must cut short visit to Down because of domestic problems.
Studying freshwater Planariae. Did CD find they had nervous systems?
News of T. C. Eyton and [William?] Owen.
Seeks to save CD’s soul.
Response to CD’s comments on "Creation by law" [see 5637].
The limits of variation discussed.
Thanks for German version of Origin [1867].
Dipterous insects are adapted to eating pollen rather than only to sucking nectar. He describes such adaptations in two dipteran species.
Asks CD for exact title of Variation for German advertisement.
Wants information on Fuegian harpoons. Must prepare second edition of Prehistoric times.