Sends a publication to Darwin.
Asks for a portrait.
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Sends a publication to Darwin.
Asks for a portrait.
Sends CD some remarks he made before the Academy of Natural Sciences [Philadelphia].
TM is indebted to the Origin for first suggesting to him which observations might be useful to those working out the greater laws of nature.
Values CD’s approbation more than that of anyone else now living.
CD’s "searching questions". Sends answers separately.
Offers his observation on morbid pigmentation of skin.
Offers photographs of abnormal features in patients – ears with bristles, women with two sets of nipples.
Encloses notes on weeping and laughter in the insane.
The pages [of Descent] CD wishes to correct are not yet printed.
JVC’s work on the translation has been interrupted by illness.
Bound copies [of Descent] have been dispatched to CD.
Robert Cooke, JM’s cousin and partner, has been nominated for Athenaeum; asks CD’s support.
Begs CD not to permit any notice by F. P. Cobbe to appear until after next week.
Thanks for copy of Descent.
VOK and his wife walked 25 miles through the Prussian lines to Paris.
Natural history collections undamaged by bombardment, but Edmond Hébert and A. J. Gaudry fear Prussians will rob them.
Several sheets of Descent lost as they passed through the lines.
Thanks CD for copy of Descent. Is considering running for School Board.
Thanks for copy of Descent.
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent.
Mivart’s Genesis of species [1871] is poor.
Mathematical illustrations of Pangenesis at Cambridge.
Wallace’s address on Madeira not convincing ["The President’s Address", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1870): xliv–lxix; A. R. Wallace, Studies scientific and social (1900) 1: 250–66].
Thanks for Descent.
Offers photo of patient with a second small milk-giving nipple on one breast, and of man with bristles on his ears, which come somewhat to a point.
Thanks for new book [Descent].
Has just received copy of CD’s work [Descent].
Can corroborate artificial compression of skull practised by Indians.
May have to modify his earlier published opinions on CD’s views.
A second edition [issue] of Descent may be needed in short time; preparations should be made, and corrections sent to Clowes. Wallace, Mivart, and F. P. Cobbe have been sent copies of both volumes.
Thanks CD for sending his book [Descent].
Thanks for Descent; will forward any information he has after he has studied it.
Instance of inequality in left and right anal appendices of caddis-fly.
Various comments on Descent;
on suicide on Gold Coast;
on mulattoes’ not being prolific.
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent.
Thanks for the gift of the book [Descent].
Thanks for copy of Descent.