Reports and describes massive hailstones which fell in Petoraghur [Nepal].
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Reports and describes massive hailstones which fell in Petoraghur [Nepal].
WWR is beginning to appreciate CD’s warnings against his polemical writing.
Sends quotation from Thomas Moore’s Memoirs [ed. Lord John Russell, (1853–6)] about hereditary peculiarity in handwriting.
On colour-blindness in his family.
O. Salvin will not be applying for the same post as AG.
Sends duplicate of his previous letter [8189]; he addressed it simply to C. Darwin, England, and had no reply.
Comments on drawings of hostile dog and affectionate dog.
Sends small gift of money.
Will himself correct the details on the woodblock CD finds acceptable. The second one followed CD’s instructions, contrary to his own experience.
His book has received bad reviews; therefore CD’s letter cheers him up.
Sends £35 as his subscription towards the building of a vicarage.
[MS of a short paper on pigeon breeding by an Italian doctor.]
Believes many of the species and even genera of the fish family Labyrinthici are products of domestication.
Events at the British Museum.
Will try again to draw the expression of a pleased dog.
Agrees to contribute £10 towards a new road in the area of Beckenham, although he doubts whether the road will be of much use to him.
Sends MS of a book on progressive development on this planet and in the universe. Asks CD to underwrite its publication.
Has replied [in North Am. Rev. 115 (1872): 1–30] to Mivart’s communication to the North American Review [114 (1872): 451–68].
Discusses the degree of fixedness of different characters in organisms.
Again seeks help with his rabbits; hopes one of CD’s men can take them.
Thanks for CD’s books [unspecified].
AM [wife of Jules Michelet] offers information on crosses in cats.
Delighted CD’s groom will take the rabbits;
has just done proof of a paper to the Royal Society on "blood-relationship", defining kinship between parents and offspring.
Sends a drawing of dog’s expression for CD to approve and return.