Two criticisms (one by Henrietta Darwin) of THH’s Lectures [to working men].
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Two criticisms (one by Henrietta Darwin) of THH’s Lectures [to working men].
On six-fingered men: suspects increase confined to metacarpals and digits. Has asked James Paget to look it up.
It is not carpal or tarsal bones that are increased [in six-fingered men] but generally only the digits and metacarpals.
Pectoral fins of fish and sharks.
Asks THH to check P. M. Roget’s statement that there is a rudiment of a sixth digit in frogs.
[P.S. missing from original.]
A note reminding THH to examine the rudiment of the 6th toe on the hind foot of a Batrachian.
Thanks for "monkey book" [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)].
Must wait till he has finished Lyell [Antiquity of man (1863)].
Praise of Man’s place.
Owen’s muddling letter in Athenæum [21 Feb 1863, pp. 262–3].
Is disappointed in Lyell’s excessive caution on species and origin of man [in Antiquity of man].