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Wants CD’s support for his application for post of Assistant Keeper in Zoological Department of British Museum.
Death of G. R. Gray.
The die is cast on Ayrton affair. Lord Derby has called for all of the correspondence, as a result of pressure by men of science on JDH’s behalf.
Has just had a Greenland collection, which supports his views altogether; "I am ready to do fight for these with you."
His chapter on machines in Erewhon has been misunderstood as laughing at the Origin. He was only trying to show how an absurd proposition can be defended with a little ingenuity, distortion, and departure from strict scientific method. Will explain in a second edition, if one is called for.
Thanks for CD’s testimonial.
More on Ayrton affair. Conduct of Gladstone and the Ministry despicable. They have owned him to be in right but will not raise a finger until exposure in Parliament is imminent.
AG’s application for an appointment to Assistant Keeper at the British Museum.
Sends his article ["Review of Owen’s Cuvierian principle of palaeontology"].
Reports aggressive reactions of three kinds of porcupines to a snake, concluding that in the wild they would probably kill and eat it [see Expression, pp. 93–4]
Sends sketches of expressions in two dogs.
Reports and describes massive hailstones which fell in Petoraghur [Nepal].
WWR is beginning to appreciate CD’s warnings against his polemical writing.
Sends quotation from Thomas Moore’s Memoirs [ed. Lord John Russell, (1853–6)] about hereditary peculiarity in handwriting.
On colour-blindness in his family.
O. Salvin will not be applying for the same post as AG.
Sends duplicate of his previous letter [8189]; he addressed it simply to C. Darwin, England, and had no reply.
Will himself correct the details on the woodblock CD finds acceptable. The second one followed CD’s instructions, contrary to his own experience.
His book has received bad reviews; therefore CD’s letter cheers him up.
[MS of a short paper on pigeon breeding by an Italian doctor.]
Believes many of the species and even genera of the fish family Labyrinthici are products of domestication.
Events at the British Museum.
Will try again to draw the expression of a pleased dog.
Sends MS of a book on progressive development on this planet and in the universe. Asks CD to underwrite its publication.