Thanks for agreeing to write the preface for RM’s translation of Weismann.
Will arrange to meet CD when he comes to London.
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Thanks for agreeing to write the preface for RM’s translation of Weismann.
Will arrange to meet CD when he comes to London.
Encloses a letter [missing] on the progress of the Fuegians.
His eldest son has married.
Acknowledges receipt of French translation of Forms of flowers. "No one more than you has made us feel the beauties of Creation and made us enter more profoundly into the secrets of nature."
Encloses William Thomson’s report on GHD’s paper. Some of it was written in Rayleigh’s hand.
Explains the occurrence of cattle on the Fuegian islands.
Discusses intentions with regard to missionary stations and steamers in the area.
CD elected foreign associate of the Royal Academy of Sciences [K. Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften].
EdB-R’s paper will be available in English in the New York periodical, Popular Science Monthly, and he hopes CD will read it. [See 11742 and 11842.]
Has observed rare instances of Ophrys apifera with "cut labellum". Suggests it was done by large dragonfly mistaking the flower for a fly visiting a flower. Stimulated to study Ophrys by Orchids.
Describes the change in shape of a worm over a candle-flame.
Discusses three "laws of race preservation" which are evolving: (1) natural selection; (2) the sociological law of sympathetic selection, or indiscriminate survival; (3) moral law – social selection or the "Birth of the Fittest".
Invites CD to join the Association of Liberal Thinkers and encloses information on its constitution. Huxley and Tyndall are co-operating.
Discusses colour variations in the geometer moth, Gnophos obscurata. Concludes that the increasing proportion of the darker form is related to the effect of smoke that is blackening the chalk slopes on which they live.
THN, a medium with a gift to cure occult diseases, outlines a course of treatment to remedy CD’s ailments.
Thanks CD for his encouraging letter. Replies to CD’s points. Thinks more attention should be given to the origin and growth of sexual shame.
Horse chestnut roots have not acted at all well.
Many thnks for the pelargonium letter.
Thanks for preface. When RM’s translation is complete, would like CD to expand it slightly to refer to overlap between Weismann’s observations and CD’s theories.
Sends revises [of his Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger", 1872–6 (1879)] and asks permission to dedicate it to CD.
Wishes to defend CD from the attacks E. B. Pusey made in his sermon [see 11763]. Raises specific questions on CD’s theological views in order to refute Pusey’s accusations.
As an honorary professor of the Free Institution of Enseñanza [see 11321a] CD is sent the discourse pronounced by the Rector at their opening session with a number of the Ilustracion Española y Americana with portraits of the members of the executive committee of the Institucion.
He has had no success with horse or Spanish chestnuts.