Discusses possible case of inherited memory involving Pompilus. Cites similar example of electric eel.
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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Discusses possible case of inherited memory involving Pompilus. Cites similar example of electric eel.
Thanks correspondent for sending paper on molluscs.
Suggests modification in JBH’s experiment on formation of diamonds.
Speculates about chemical products of constituents of living organisms when subjected to heat and pressure.
Congratulates him on Mastodon discovery.
Thanks EH and Ernst Abbe in connection with microscope for his son [Francis].
CD is glad the portrait [of CD by John Collier] has been arranged; suggests dates, but feels he should have no say in the subscriptions or remuneration.
Thinks the Lakes are beautiful.
Is reading W. Graham’s The creed of science.