Thanks JC for pamphlets.
"I do not believe in Metempsychosis nor in Genesis – & you are growing so orthodox, that you will end your days, I believe, in believing in the Tower of Babel–."
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Thanks JC for pamphlets.
"I do not believe in Metempsychosis nor in Genesis – & you are growing so orthodox, that you will end your days, I believe, in believing in the Tower of Babel–."
Huxley and CD fear Chauncey Wright’s review is too general.
Reports the praise for AG’s pamphlet.
J. S. Henslow is dying.
Francis Bowen strikes CD as weak and unobservant; presumes he is a metaphysician, which accounts for his "entire want of common sense".
Does wild Apocynum catch flies in U. S.?
CD infers [incorrectly] from Huxley’s report that Henslow is dead.
Discusses progress of CL’s work [on Antiquity of man (1863)].
CD had not thought of subsidence in connection with "roads" of Glen Roy.
Discusses habits of ants.
Since his previous letter, has unexpectedly arranged to go to London next Tuesday.
Hopes to call on recipient.
Inquires about rabbits.
Sends list of queries on poultry.
WBT’s fowls’ skulls have arrived.
CD misunderstood Huxley: Henslow is not dead.
Index of Origin does not refer to variability of rudimentary organs mentioned at pp. 149, 168. Offers references to Rudolf Leuckart and to Franz von Leydig to support CD’s point.
Corrects CD’s statement [Origin, 3d ed.] that Madeira does not possess one peculiar bird. There is one, out of the 99.
Comments on FWH’s article ["Some remarks on Mr Darwin’s theory", Geologist (1861): 132–6, 183–8]. Does not adduce direct evidence of species change but believes it because so many phenomena thus explained.
Asks about species of Opetiorhynchus.
Returns [an unspecified] enclosure referring to "a most wonderful cure".
Regrets having troubled SB during his illness. His thanks for the assistance already given.
Offers to go to Henslow despite his own poor health.
Congratulations on DO’s marriage.
Comments on QdeB’s Unité de l’espèce humaine [1861].
Discusses acceptance of his theory among scientists, especially geologists.
C. V. Naudin did not show how selection applied in nature, but Patrick Matthew clearly anticipated CD’s views.
Asks TD to carry out research on brachiopods to see whether the forms in one formation are intermediate between those above and below.
Describes unpublished study of spirifers by J. W. Salter.
Requests facts concerning the colour of the parents of true dun horses. His interest also in the colour and presence of spinal stripes of dun horses or ponies before they lose their first hair.
Thanks JM for bill for £480 and sends receipt. Number of copies differs in note and in receipt (2500 and 2000, respectively). Not surprised sale is slackening; number printed was bold. Reminds JM to advertise "with additions and corrections".
Will consult JM on illustrations for Variation.
Thanks RC for "Ice and water" [in RC’s Edinburgh papers (1861)].
Comments on problem of scientific accuracy.
Discusses views of Thomas Davidson on the genealogy of brachiopods.