Sends £20. Family news.
Answers WED’s questions about CD’s Journal of researches: Galapagos "productions" all came from America, but "they have since been modified by my principle of Natural Selection".
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Sends £20. Family news.
Answers WED’s questions about CD’s Journal of researches: Galapagos "productions" all came from America, but "they have since been modified by my principle of Natural Selection".
Abstract growing to inordinate length.
Writing in support of S. Passell as assistant at Linnean Society.
Abstract will run into a small volume.
Urges JDH not to reject natural selection until he has read abstract.
[Enclosed are CD’s comments on a ?JDH manuscript that perhaps belong elsewhere.]
Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers [Collected papers 2: 19–25].
JDH’s reactions to CD’s theory.
Discussed human fossil evidence with Hugh Falconer.
Glad WED has begun under George Henslow in the way that he has. CD wishes he had had such practice under J. S. Henslow.
Has had luck in his search for striped horses.
Cannot come to London until Tuesday. Arriving about 11: 15.
Writes to WED about his living arrangements at Christ’s College; reminisces about his own Cambridge days.