Wynne [gardener] suggests he should be paid from the money from the sale of the Mount, but EAD suggests an annual subscription instead.
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Wynne [gardener] suggests he should be paid from the money from the sale of the Mount, but EAD suggests an annual subscription instead.
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Has been too busy to write. Is leaving for Switzerland that evening.
A friend, who ran away from home as a boy, has two sons who have done the same several times. Is the case worth investigating for CD?
Congratulates EH on approaching marriage.
Sorry he will not visit in autumn.
Glad EH is re-examining Protoamoeba but puzzled to think what he can find.
Describes newspaper account of criticism by Agassiz of Generelle Morphologie.
Acknowledgment of article on mimicry [Westminster Rev. 88 (1867): 1–43].
Sends W. M. Canby’s observations on the carnivorous powers of Dionaea. [See Insectivorous plants, pp. 301, 310, 313.]
Has distributed CD’s questions on expression. Observations on the natives.
Floral structure encouraging cross-pollination in Polygala.
Will seek answers to CD’s questions on expression. Observing patients’ blushing. Is CD interested in the platysma during screaming under chloroform?
Curious to read what CD will say on man and his races.
Has CD seen Ludwig Rütimeyer’s Ueber die Herkunft unserer Thierwelt (Rütimeyer 1867c)?
Discusses J. F. W. Herschel’s theory of active volcanoes existing at the junction of continents and the sea.
Discusses proposed sale of house and provision for Wynne, the gardener, and his wife.
Thanks CD for sending F. H. G. Hildebrand’s book on fertilisation [Die Geschlechter-Vertheilung bei den Pflanzen (1867)]
and J. D. Hooker’s "Lecture on insular floras".
Describes work on Rubiaceae, Oxalis,
and on crossing orchids. Lists crosses made.
As for CD’s query concerning sexual differences among invertebrates, he gives the case of the local amphipod, Brachyscellus diversilor. Male differs in shape of antennae and coloration.
Also mentions local fish in sea near Sta Catharina which emits melodic tone to attract females.
Chapter 12 [of Variation] finished;
too late to include information on six-fingered men. Plans for book on man [Descent].
Mentions coral reefs of Tahiti.
Discusses volcanic islands; volcanoes of the Cordillera.
Prefers not to send her proof-slips of the present chapter [of Variation], which has been enormously altered, but will be glad to have her see slips and revises in future.
Back from Switzerland. Mrs Hooker much improved.
Pleased JDH will come next Saturday.
Asks him to return Adam Bede.
Plans to come to Down on Saturday.
Returned Adam Bede two years ago.
Wishes CD would return Tylor’s Early history of mankind
and his own Himalayan journal with his notes, "both of which I have lent, i.e., lost".
Lyell well and full of "Insular" difficulties which he will propound.
Plans to write a book on expression. Questions WB on orbicular muscle in screaming infant and function of muscle contractions in looking at a distant object.
Sends fourth volume of A. E. Brehm’s Thierleben. First three sent at V. O. Kovalevsky’s request. Asks CD’s support for an English edition, since this is the first extensive popular work based on CD’s theory.
Has abstracted for insertion in his sterility chapter [Variation 2, ch. 18], FM’s observations of plant’s pollen being poisonous to itself.
Occurrence of mimetic plants.
Colouring of Planariae.