Will consider JVC’s comments on Expression when he prepares a new edition.
Will consider JVC’s comments on Expression when he prepares a new edition.
Corrects CD’s spelling of the name of a statue: the Arrotino (spelled "Arretino" by CD) [see Expression, p. 184, on grief-muscles].
D. Appleton has been sent 3000 sets of plates [for Expression]. Hopes to publish [Expression] on 12 Nov.
Much experiment and observation needed before spontaneous generation will be empirically advanced, but philosophically the matter is clear.
Thinks Ludwig Rütimeyer has attacked EH to satisfy pious opinion in Basel.
Will soon be finished with his monograph Die Kalkschwämme [1872].
THF’s article in Nature ["The fertilisation of a few papilionaceous flowers", 6 (1872): 478–80, 498–501] is extremely good.
Suspects he now has answer to why common peas and sweetpeas hardly ever intercross, a point which half drove CD mad for years.
Huxley will be asked to review Expression in Pall Mall Gazette.
Thanks JVC for correcting his blunder on spelling of "Arrotino" [see Expression, p. 184]. "No Frenchman has a greater tendency to spell all proper names wrongly than I have."
WM converted to belief in evolution by experience of museum work.
Describes protective coloration of coots’ eggs.
Wants to make a present to her on the move to a new house.
Appreciation of the "marriage gift"; their affection for CD.
Suggests possible experiments with Pisum and Lathyrus.
Has read the article CD spoke of; the doctrine of inherited mental and corporeal qualities is most fertile.
Asks permission to translate Expression into German. Will superintend an Italian translation.
Informs CD of hornless fossil Bos etruscus and Miocene fossils of genus Sus [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 505, 521].
CD would have been honoured to have EL translate forthcoming work [Expression], but J. V. Carus is already half way through this task.
Will let CIFM know [probably about John Murray’s terms for an Italian translation of Expression].
Thanks for information about hornless fossil Bos etruscus and Miocene fossils of genus Sus [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 505, 521].
On his mother’s death.
Remarks about an enclosed specimen,
and extract of letter from W. A. L. Marshall [8560].
ARW’s good review of J. C. Houzeau de Lehaie [Études sur les facultés mentales des animaux, in Nature 6 (1872): 469–71].
Supports the abolition of prize fellowships at the universities.
Spiralling of tendrils.
Has worked hard on Drosera.
Is interested in tracing the "nerves" of Dionaea which follow the vascular bundles. Finds he can paralyse half of the leaf by pricking it at a certain point.
Wishes AG to carry out two experiments on D. filiformis.
Has received AG’s Dubuque address [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 4 (1872): 282–98].
Condolences on death of JDH’s mother.
Presentation copies [of Expression] will be ready in a week. Has ordered only 250 copies to have cut edges because trade prefers uncut pages.