Observations on Coronilla.
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Observations on Coronilla.
Regrets that a cut [for Descent] does not do justice to TWW’s original drawing and if it cannot be improved then CD will have to omit it. [Refers to fig. 60 in Descent (1874).]
Sends old Japanese picture suggesting evolution, found by Charles Longfellow.
Is pleased to hear CD attended a séance [18 Jan 1874]; asks for his views about communication among spirits.
Is willing to sell the land CD wants for £300.
Thanks for JL’s willingness to sell land.
Hopes to visit CD during a stay in London.
Just back from Gold Coast.
Would like to become a member of the Royal Institution.
His gratitude for CD’s gift. An account of his difficulties with the Zoological Station and his health.
F. M. Balfour has told him that CD would like to see the question of complemental males in cirripedes studied again. AD would like to enter the field and to study the whole morphological development of cirripedes.
Describes the interest in embryological work in Russia and Germany.
C. V. Riley’s case of Pronuba moth and the fertilisation of Yucca, is the most wonderful case of fertilisation ever published [Am. Nat. 7 (1873): 619–23].
Is organising an appeal for the Naples Zoological Station.
Has just read Journal of researches and has been charmed out of his anti-Darwinian prejudice.
Supplies evidence to the contrary of CD’s assertion in Expression that dogs do not eat carrion.
Offers to send mud-wasps.
On supernumerary mammae in a male patient.
On proportion of sexes in litters of greyhounds.
Sends his screed about the brain [for Descent], which he thinks pounds the enemy into a jelly.
Is in good health.
Sends some phosphates of lime free of animal matter [see Insectivorous plants, p. 109].
His note on the brain should be in small type.
Glad CD agrees with him on hand, foot, and skull question.
Has heard from Dohrn.
CD’s son Francis is to be married, so CD is seeking advice as to how much he should arrange as a marriage-settlement.
Sends queries [on proofs of Descent, 2d ed.]. Will be finished, except for the index, in two days.
Is now less satisfied than formerly with his statistics on cousin marriage.
[Enclosure is a copy by GHD of J. S. Mill’s statement about Origin (Logic 2: 18 n.).]
Is sorry to hear the news about the cousin question – a real misfortune.
Congratulates GHD on being nearly finished with work on Descent.