Condolence on death of HJ’s daughter; "I know from old experience how bitter a loss it is".
Thanks for information about intelligence of dog.
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Condolence on death of HJ’s daughter; "I know from old experience how bitter a loss it is".
Thanks for information about intelligence of dog.
Replies to Francis Galton’s paper on tranfusing blood between rabbits to test Pangenesis [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 19 (1871): 393–40]. FG’s conclusion that his experiments prove Pangenesis to be false is "a little hasty", since CD had never maintained that gemmules in the blood formed any part of his hypothesis.
Thanks CD for Origin, 5th ed.
Comments on reviews of Descent by the Duke of Argyll and A. R. Wallace.
Lists the Darwinian professors at Jena.
WP’s work shows external ear to have no physiological functions.
W. Müller’s book not yet arrived. Will send Müller’s next works.
About a dog that acquired habits from a cat and her kittens.
Requesting information about the publication history of Lavater 1820.
Thanks for FTK’s locust paper ["Die geographische Verbreitung der Wanderheuschrecke", Petermann’s Geogr. Mittheil. (1871)].
Information on the publishing history of a book [J. C. Lavater, Physiognomische Fragmente, 4 vols. (1775–8)].
Discusses action of the platysma in a state of fear.
Thanks EBT for present of Primitive culture [1871]. Feels certain he will regret not having read it before writing Descent.
Since it is difficult to catch the expressions CD wants, OGR is posing himself.
Is sending copy of Descent.
Thanks for copy of WP’s book [Die Blutkrystalle (1871)].
Discusses shape of external ear.
Sends a small apparatus from Sarawak for getting fire.
Mentions some photos relating to expression.
Suggests aesthetic sense in animals is merely secondary to sexual selection.
Sends German edition of Descent, vol. 1. Expects good sale. Hopes CD will offer him additional books to publish.
Believes heliotype process is best for book illustrations. Has sent copies [of Descent] to Loescher and Carus.
Is working on an estimate for the cheap [6th] edition of the Origin.
The Times review has not hurt sales of Descent.
Thanks for EJP’s suggestion that it is fascination rather than aesthetic appreciation that drives sexual selection.
Concerned with photographic processes for illustrations [for Expression].