Sends drawings of atypical Geranium and honeysuckle pollen-grains. Would they produce variation in seedlings?
Share dealings.
Sends CD some Indian corn seeds to demonstrate the extreme effect sometimes producible on progeny by the mutilation of a parent.
Writes of a recent book.
Sets a time for CD to call.
Humphrey does not think more bones in female os coccyx than in male. Because of maceration it is impossible to compare male and female skeletons. Has another coach while Stuart ill.
Sends 2d ed. of his Essays on physiological subjects (1869).
Discovery of skull of "River-bed" race of man near Corwen.
Criticises chapter on good effect of crossing in Variation: (1) does not accept that inbreeding alone results in degeneracy; (2) good effects of crossing exaggerated; (3) denies deleterious effects of close marriage in humans.
Does not give much for botanical results of Round Island, but the zoology is wonderful.
Lyell’s new book [The student’s elements of geology (1870)]. Urges Lyell to make it Elementary principles.
Grove is disgusted with CD for being disquieted by William Thomson: "Take another dose of Huxley’s penultimate address to Geol. Soc." [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53].
Sends enclosure [a letter from Lady Lyell?]. He is choking with vanity.
Is going to send Willy to Mr La Touche in Salop; he brought up young Colenso and Frank Lyell. Some of his friends will think he is sending his son into a nest of young adders!
Ask whether CD would like to subscribe again to National Education League. Describes the League’s goals.
Is leaving tonight for Genoa;
sends a French paper [not identified].
Requests CD write in support of Government pension for her husband, George Cupples.
Sends CD "L’applicazione della teoria Darwiniana ai fiori ed agli insetti visitatori dei fiori" [Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 2 (1870)]. Continues to support vitalism and teleology.
Has received a letter, and two packets of securities.
Comments on George’s escape.
Confirms number of shares.
Reports on conversation with Henry Holland.
COG-N sends, at the request of the late Lord Brougham, a copy of his work, The book of nature and the book of man [1870].
Brief observations on expression in Africa.
Alexander Agassiz is a good investigator, who differs with his father on evolution.
The behaviour of women and savages is a little easier to understand than that of civilised men.
Is glad CD liked Chamois hunting [in Bavaria (1853, 1860)].
Regrets CD’s poor health.
Sends his book, Transylvania [1865].
Sends monstrous oranges,
red grape leaves,
and a bean with blue fruits (a hybrid of Phaseolus vulgaris and a Dolichos species).