He is waiting to hear about the requirements for the MB examination before considering the possible trip to north America.
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He is waiting to hear about the requirements for the MB examination before considering the possible trip to north America.
Thanks for the cheque, and also for the offer to pay for him to go on a trip to north America with G. H. Darwin.
Thanks for present of FWF’s The witness of history [1871].
CD will pay for the American trip if it takes place.
Asks whether FD can help him understand the eyes of cephalopods; is the structure the same as in the Vertebrata and are the parts developed from homologous layers of skin?
Has been pleased by a recent review.
Postscript: Is thinking of a cheap edition of the Origin [1872] in which he hopes to answer St George Mivart’s criticisms.
Asks FD whether he can get some references to good papers on cephalapod eyes.
Explains about the attendance at St George’s hospital that is required for the MB examaminations, and how this would affect plans for a trip to north America.
Will translate passages as CD requests [see 7735].
Bitter at Prussian militarism.
Comments on and corrections for chapter 13, "Mammals", of Descent.
Has finished Descent, which charmed but did not convert him.
Sends examples of dogs’ reasoning.
Has given up his farm.
Sends two bills [JM’s notes for payments due to CD] for £420 each for 3d issue of Descent.
Several observations on protective coloration and sexual selection.
Sends corrections for Descent.
Reports on the wholesale murder in Paris.
His wife, Sofya Kovalevsky, is working for her examinations.
VOK is studying embryology.
Alexander has left Suez and is now in Jaffa.
[Reference to Japanese nuthatch (see Descent, 2d ed., p. 410 n.) excised from letter.]
Sorry they will not have Frank Darwin with them any more.
Thanks AN for facts and corrections [for Descent].
The case of the gull must come out [Descent 2: 108 n. 9]. "Oh Lord, how difficult accuracy is!"
Retention of horns by female deer with fawn [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 503].
Explains condor’s mode of flight.
On photographic illustrations [for Expression].
Estimates 7s 6d price for a cheap edition of Origin [6th].
Criticises a book [W. M. Williams, The fuel of the sun (1870)] whose author does not understand thermodynamics, spectrum analysis, and W. Thomson’s papers.
Craniological part of Novara voyage report is done.
Expresses his satisfaction at CD’s election as a Foreign Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences, Vienna.
Sends photographs he intends to use in Expression and asks for estimates of cost per thousand of each process [Woodburytype and Heliotype] suggested by RC and for different numbers of photos on each plate.