Supports Epping Forest appointment.
Continues work on vegetable physiology.
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Supports Epping Forest appointment.
Continues work on vegetable physiology.
Has sent FM’s letter on caddis-fly to Nature ["On a frog and caddis-flies", Nature 19 (1879): 462–4].
Thanks FAG for "the curious case of inheritance" [see 12064].
Thanks WEG for his essay showing how Homer distinguished between different kinds of movement.
Invites FG to visit.
Response to ARW’s MS on geological time ["The measurement of geological time", Nature 1 (1870): 399–401, 452–5].
Groans over [what is said about] man.
Thanks for a woodcut sent by ARW for Descent.
Congratulations on his removal from London,
and praise of his review of Francis Galton ["Hereditary genius", Nature 1 (1870): 501–3]. CD agrees with every word of it.
Appreciation of eulogy in preface of ARW’s book [Theory of natural selection].
Crossing experiments and self-sterility [in Eschscholzia].
Pangenesis.
Hermann Müller on insect adaptations for fertilisation of flowers.
CD working on book on man and sexual selection.
CD sends a "curious drawing" [missing] relating to imitation and protection.
Mentions passage on gestures in EBT’s Early history of mankind [1865].
Asks Tylor whether the deaf and dumb use opposite signs for objects, qualities, etc., of an opposite nature.
Despite HBJ’s good aid, CD’s stomach will not permit a visit.
Mimicry in Lepidoptera.
Sexual selection.
The Franco-Prussian war.
Thanks for the information sent by WGS in his letter of 4 November 1870.
Praise for ARW’s reply [Nature 3 (1870): 49–50] to a paper by A. W. Bennett ["Natural selection from a mathematical point of view", Nature 3 (1870): 30–3] holding that mind is a leading cause of variation.
Is reading proof of his "confounded book" [Descent].
Responds to ARW’s comments on CD’s argument about protection in Descent.
Comments on St G. Mivart’s criticism [Genesis of species (1871)]. "The pendulum will now swing against us."
Appreciative response to ARW’s "grand review" of Descent in the Academy [2 (1871–2): 177–82]. Comments in detail on ARW’s criticisms.
On the flourishing sales of their respective books. Mentions reviews of Descent in Pall Mall Gazette [21 Mar 1871] and in the Spectator [11 Mar 1871, pp. 288–9; 18 Mar 1871, pp. 319–20].
Thanks EBT for present of Primitive culture [1871]. Feels certain he will regret not having read it before writing Descent.
Explains why he has declined writing a review for Messrs Appleton.