A circular advertising a meeting at the Senate House, Cambridge, on 25 March to discuss a memorial to Professor Adam Sedgwick.
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A circular advertising a meeting at the Senate House, Cambridge, on 25 March to discuss a memorial to Professor Adam Sedgwick.
Is glad and proud to honour the memory of Adam Sedgwick [d. 1873].
Thanks for CD’s regrets at AWB’s leaving Nature.
Plans English editions of Asa Gray’s books [How plants grow; How plants behave].
Other publication plans.
Thanks for congratulations on appearance of abstract of HA’s paper [Nature 7 (1873): 343–4].
Explains again his theory of "contraction with twist" by which compact buds and a spiral phyllotaxy have evolved. Explains how the peculiar phyllotaxy of the teasel is explicable by this process of "condensation".
CD has discovered correspondent intends to present a petition to the House of Commons on which CD’s is the sole signature. Asks that his name be erased unless other signatures are added.
Two students express their gratitude and admiration.
Does not understand TM’s views on sex and vitality.
Agrees no real "essences" in genera, only broken groups of species.
Sends £10 subscription for James Murie.
An admirer sends clipping from Bremen newspaper on hybrid between orange and lemon.
Describes his critique of natural selection [Die Lehre Darwins kritisch betrachtet (1871)].
Gives some information on variation of ocelli between sexes in butterfly species.
Proposes publishing a series of papers on mimicry.
H. W. Bates says CD is in town. WWR would like to call.
Discusses expression among the Chinese. Reports certain physical characters and the practice of certain unusual customs.
Thanks for Indian [Medical] Gazette. Comments on article.
Has read several of CD’s books; is curious about his remarks on "movements which are no longer useful but still inherited". Asks CD’s opinion on why people still swing arms with opposite leg in walking.
Thanks CD for photograph – sends one in return,
questions CD on his religious views.
On ocelli and relation to sexual selection;
instance of rejection of male by female butterfly.
Reports that he has not received JSBS’s book on histology and physiology [Sanderson ed., Handbook for the physiological laboratory (1873)], which Edward Emmanuel Klein told CD’s son was to be sent. He asks for information so that he may thank Dr Klein. [Klein and Michael Foster were co-authors with JSBS.]
He has returned the Gazette to Dr T. L. Brunton. [See 8825.]
Pleased CD enjoyed his book [Outdoor papers (1871)].
Rejoices at CD’s kindly feelings toward the coloured race.
The Index is in financial trouble due to F. E. Abbot’s unworldliness.
Agassiz is setting up a summer school for natural history off the Massachusetts coast. His pupils develop more liberal scientific opinions than Agassiz’s.
Encloses some notes on expression.
Is trying to persuade "our friend" [T. H. Huxley?] to accept a gift.