Invites HNM to Down on 9 May.
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Invites HNM to Down on 9 May.
Requests a copy of Ray Lankester’s lecture or essay on degeneration (Lankester, E. Ray. 1880. Degeneration: A chapter in Darwinism. London: Macmillan.).
Still remembers FJH. Thinks no scientific journal would publish her essay on Genesis and science.
Regrets death of her brother [W. D. Fox].
Hopes that Lankester will come stay next Sunday. Clark, Galton and Moseley will also be there.
Expresses his delight with and admiration for THH’s "Coming of age [of The origin of species]" in Nature [22 (1880): 1–4].
Thanks for information.
Forwards John Lubbock’s letter and hopes WED might influence the men "for the sake of science".
Cannot offer any assistance in urging Government to aid JT’s experiments. Thinks best chance through [William Edward?] Forster. William Carruthers reported to Royal Agricultural Society that JT’s attempt was hopeless.
Comments on natural selection. Sometimes he can persuade himself that it is of quite subordinate importance, but so many structures have been explained by it that he can also persuade himself that every structure developed through it. Cites H. G. Bronn’s list [of structures not explicable by natural selection].
Invites JF to Down.
Lends BJS Titus Coan’s Adventures in Patagonia [1880].
Thanks him for copies of the missionary journal.
Thanks GC for having sent his book [La teoria di Darwin criticamente esposta (1880)].
Cannot precisely explain conditions of existence of any organism.
Discusses ethics of risking one’s life to save another.
Thanks for AdeC’s Phytographie [1880]. CD finds in it a number of "philosophical" remarks new to him. The work would have been invaluable to him in dealing with puzzles when writing his cirripede monographs.
Describes his system of keeping notes on separate pieces of paper filed in several scores of large portfolios.
Has just sent MS of Movement in plants to the printer. Thinks he has suceeded in showing "that all the more important great classes of movements are due to the modification of a kind of movement common to all plants from their earliest youth".
Discusses GHD’s genealogical researches
and his health.