Buys ten shares in the Artizans, Labourers, & General Dwellings Co.
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Buys ten shares in the Artizans, Labourers, & General Dwellings Co.
CD questions ADB on the mode of feeding of geese and on the existence of variations in the structure of the bill; is trying to trace gradations in structure and habits.
His mother very ill.
Mrs Hooker back from Bavaria.
Hopes marriage [of Henrietta] went well. Is accused of saying he would rather go to two burials than one marriage.
Has heard from Huxley who is threatening to "thin out" Mivart. Huxley is reading Francisco Suarez and finds Mivart misquotes or misunderstands him.
Believes CD will not consider him a good Darwinian since he accepts natural selection only as a secondary law.
Observations on behaviour of spiders in Astrakhan and Turkestan.