Asks for Tom. 23 of the Bulletin de la Soc. Bot. de France to be purchased for him.
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Asks for Tom. 23 of the Bulletin de la Soc. Bot. de France to be purchased for him.
Will be delighted to see WHF on 26th.
Thanks him for cirripede specimens.
Thanks JLC for his letter, pedigree, and MS of the history of the Darwin family.
Queries how much land has been used to cultivate potato varieties, and how many seedlings have been raised in any one year.
Mentions experiments on plants involving coloured glass. Encloses correspondence from glass maker and asks advice.
Asking for specific information about reproduction in barnacles.
Thanks WHF for photographs [of niata ox skull]. Will tell Quatrefages de Bréau about the cast. May have the photographs copied for woodcuts to illustrate his book on variation under domestication.
Would like Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel’s photograph, but JDH should give CD’s address to FAWM.
Thanks for letter and glad Frances Harriet Hooker goes on well.
Do not send St Helena earth.
Thanks recipient for the pamphlet, but he had already procured the Transactions.
Does not think that his views on Origin bear in any way on the question whether some one organic being was originally created by God, or appeared spontaneously through the action of natural laws.
Does not know rules for admission to museum [of the Royal College of Surgeons]. CD’s son [Francis] wishes much to inspect some of the preparations.
Encloses a query from Camille Dareste [see 7262] about the niata ox skull CD gave to the museum [of the Royal College of Surgeons].
Regrets that his health will prevent his attending concerts in aid of the Rifle Corps Fund.
Thanks JT for his information and hopes to attend to it in any future edition.
Asks for specimen of Aldrovanda for book on insect-eating plants.
Has previously quoted details concerning the regrowth of her amputated extra digit in Variation [2: 14–15]. The case has since been disputed, so CD, who is revising his work, asks for some fuller details.
American publishers will not wait for woodcuts, so asks Murray to have a copy of the reprint sent to Asa Gray. Will call soon to talk about Für Darwin and to hear about sale of latest edition of Origin