Will be proud to publish CD’s new work on domestic animals [Variation]. Will announce it as the complement of the Origin. Advises on woodcuts; does not wish to limit number; agrees to CD’s suggestions for artists.
Kew affairs.
H. J. Carter’s observations are wonderful but want verification.
Skeptical of H. H. Travers’ observations.
Observations for CD on oxlips, which she finds never grow near cowslips or primroses.
Thanks CD for his paper on Lythrum [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Astonished by CD’s powers of observation and perseverance.
His elms raised from three varieties of weeping elms are doing well.
Sends camera outlines of pollen. Thinks the red longstyled ones are more sterile than the yellow.
JL is in France with J. Steenstrup.
Reports that dogs caught in the act of sodomy have been attacked by their fellows, who mutilate the offender’s genitals.
Gives a description of the nature and occurrence of the wild Bos of Formosa.
[Outline sketches of pollen from short-styled yellow primrose and from long-styled yellow and red primroses.]
Sends photograph.
THH wishes he could write the popular zoology but writing is a boring and slow process when he is not interested, and he is overburdened with lectures.
Has just been shown CD’s remarks on Tennyson. Upbraids CD for "Owen-like quotation" out of context, and getting source wrong. "If ""facts"" in Origin are of this sort I agree with Bishop of Oxford."
Forwards H. T. Stainton letter for reply.
Finds many Cucurbita have tendrils with sticking ends.
The "potentiality of so many organs in plants to play so many parts is one of the most wonderful of your discoveries . . . one day it will itself play a prodigious part in the interpretation of both morphological and physiological facts".
Is disgusted with Sabine’s address [see 4708] because of its mutilation of what JDH wrote.
THH’s slashing leader in Reader ["Science and ""Church policy"" ", 4 (1864): 821] – as usual he destroys all in his path.
Encloses letter from G. H. K. Thwaites with a message for CD [see encl].
Thanks for Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
T. S. Cobbold’s book on the Entozoa [1864].
Remarks on development of the tapeworm.
Regrets he has not yet finished his monograph on Bos. Has examined and discusses the Bos skull from Lord Tankerville.
Would like CD’s opinion on the conclusions in LR’s paper on fossil horses.
Thanks CD for his Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Tells of the birth of his 16th child. Has five grandchildren.
Bentham wants "Climbing plants" for Journal of the Linnean Society, however long [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1865): 1–118]. Publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society restricts correspondence.
Reader much improved.
Tyndall did write piece on spiritualism ["Science and the spirits", Reader 4 (1864): 725–6].
"Suppressed gout" annoys him as a term cloaking ignorance.
Thanks for [E. Eudes?] Deslongchamps’ paper.
Henry Huxley born.
Leader in Reader [4 (1864): 821] is by THH. It has got him into trouble with some of his friends.
His view of Origin.
Belief of Duke of Argyll that substituting "variation" and "selection" for creation deifies them.
Thinks Argyll would accept evolution except for man.
A’s view of humming-birds.
Describes discussion with [Victoria,] Princess Royal of Prussia, about evolution.
New edition of Elements consistent with Origin.
New herbarium is finished.
Congratulations on Copley Medal.
Cannot come until week from Saturday.
Worked to death by Genera plantarum.
His distress that his engagement has been broken off.
Sends copies of two papers ["On the parrots of the Malayan region", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1864): 279–97;
"On the physical geography of the Malay Archipelago", J. R. Geogr. Soc. 33 (1863): 217–34].
