Thanks RAB for kindness. Says W. H. Flower will examine wings [of geese].
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Thanks RAB for kindness. Says W. H. Flower will examine wings [of geese].
Discusses "highly expressive" speech of young children.
Encloses letters from Blair on inheritance of injured wing in geese. Says specimens have been sent.
Mentions case of pigeon born without eyes.
Regrets that LAE went to Down for nothing.
Comments on GJR’s lecture on animal intelligence [Rep. BAAS].
Comments on J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie [1876].
Suggests that GJR keep a young monkey to observe.
Discusses animal intelligence.
Advises GJR on acquiring monkey.
Sends book by Delboeuf [La psychologie (1876)].
Discusses spiritualism. Says Williams, the medium, is exposed as fraud.
Thanks him for plant specimens.
Asks about sowing Drosera seeds.
Urges publication of an exposure of Williams the spiritualist medium.
Comments on GJR’s article in Fortnightly Review ["The beginning of nerves", n.s. 24 (1878): 509–26].
Comments on "poor old" Edinburgh Review.
Thanks for account of Fuegians
and news about old "Beaglers".
Has been reading A. A. Brassey [Around the world in the yacht "Sunbeam" (1878)].
CD will visit tomorrow.
Encloses letter of recommendation for RIL [for position as Curator, Botanic Garden, Cambridge?]. [See 11770.]
Letter recommending R. I. Lynch [for position as Curator, Botanic Garden, Cambridge].
Comments on GJR’s anonymous book [A candid examination of theism (1878)]. Notes possible theological objections.
Says deformity of wings of geese is not related to injury to gander. Forwards a report on the birds [11717].
Sends copy of H. D. Lindemuth, "Vegetative Bastarderzeugung" [Landwirtsch. Jahrb. 7 (1878): 887–939].
Recommends article on "Brute and human intellect" by William James [J. Speculative Philos. 12 (1878): 236–78].
Comments on apology by Chambers for using some of CD’s material without acknowledgment in discussing Glen Roy. His opinion of Chambers’ book [Ancient sea-margins (1848)].
Discusses a chapter on design, written by WRG’s son [Percy Greg, The devil’s advocate (1878)]. Comments on the younger Greg’s criticisms of natural selection and evolution.