Sends a likeness [missing] of a monstrous woman who may be considered as "Darwin’s lost link".
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Sends a likeness [missing] of a monstrous woman who may be considered as "Darwin’s lost link".
Asks for two property valuations. Is afraid he has made a mistake in CD’s property settlements.
Discusses division of Trust. Is concerned Bessy’s portion will be smaller than Henrietta's. Had a pleasant visit in Cambridge. There is a clerical error in the division of CD’s property.
Sends copy of his Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen [1881]. Disagrees with CD about plant movement.
Regarding CD’s paper ["Inheritance", Nature 24 (1881): 257; he comments on absence of black sheep at his father’s sheep station.
Notes that the repeated brandings of sheep produce no inherited effect, and a woman’s withered leg was not inherited by her children.
Will send copies [of Earthworms] shortly. Troubled by rumour of a mysterious copy in hands of a reviewer.
WG is a candidate for a new chair at University College, Liverpool. Asks CD’s permission to use extracts from his letter [13230] for a testimonial.
Murray has sold 1200 copies [of Earthworms], so another printing of 500 is proposed. Has CD any corrections to send?
Thanks for presentation copy of Earthworms.
Describes a worm from Ceylon.
Asks whether he and W. M. Ord may call on CD.
Will perhaps have to print off 1000 extra copies [of Earthworms]. Electros of the woodcuts are ready for the German edition.
Thanks CD for Earthworms and comments on it.
On the effects of a mother’s imagination on a new-born child. Reports that a hen, startled by an alarm clock, laid eggs with clock faces on them.
Thanks for Earthworms.
Thanks for Earthworms.
Condolences on death of Erasmus.
Sends a paper by Arnold von Lasaulx ["Ueber sogenannten kosmischen Staub", Mineralogische und petrographische Mitteilungen 3 (1880–1): 517–32. HNM does not believe in meteoric dust, which CD takes for granted in Earthworms.
Thanks CD for answering his query about evolution.
Thanks for Earthworms.
Importance of wind in soil formation and transport.
Thanks for Earthworms.
Terraces on the Cheviot Hills.
Thanks and praises CD for Earthworms.