Arrangements to invite the Duke [unidentified].
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Arrangements to invite the Duke [unidentified].
Glad to have heard JL’s admirable speech read aloud.
Condolences on the death of JL’s wife.
All the inhabitants of Down hope JL will endeavour to induce the Post Office to improve the telegraph service.
Congratulations [on election to Parliament]; hopes science will not suffer because of politics.
Previously wrote inquiring about savages and suicide, but JL need not hurry to answer.
Suicide is rare among savages [see Descent 1: 94].
The Census Bill is down on the paper for tomorrow; will CD restate how he wants to put the question [on cousin marriages]?
CD would like questions on consanguineous marriages inserted in the Census to ascertain effects, if any, on fertility.
Thanks JL for his book [Origin of civilization (1870)], which he has read with "extreme interest". Wishes JL had published four or five months earlier as CD would have "so profited & saved so much work". CD will have to modify some of what he has written [in Descent]. Sees they differ a good deal about moral sense "but hardly two men ever do agree on this perplexing subject".
JL’s note of the 16th [see 7277] about the Census arrived too late for CD to answer.
Brought forward the "cousin question" in the House; read most of CD’s letter to the House.
Some good men spoke for CD’s amendment, but in vain.
Comments on Descent [2: 358–60] especially on CD’s view that behaviour of lower animals is evidence against JL’s interpretation [of aboriginal promiscuity]. View on communal marriage.
CD’s comments on proofs of JL’s book [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].
Praises and comments on JL’s essay on insects ["Origin of insects", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. 11 (1873): 422–5].
Discusses problems of obtaining money for the alteration of Down church.
Encloses a statement and circular he has been asked to send to JL.
Encloses a memorial concerning the Botanical Gardens at Kew signed by ‘some of our most eminent scientific men’ (including CD).
CD wishes to acquire a piece of JL’s land.
The land CD wants to buy probably belongs to his marriage-settlement and would thus be difficult to sell.
Is willing to sell the land CD wants for £300.