Questions on breeding and habits.
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Questions on breeding and habits.
Impressed by CD’s theory [of earthworm action].
His work [on vol. 2 of Narrative] is going slowly.
Has no objection to anything in CD’s excellent volume. CD should "entertain no further scruple on that subject".
Sends four samples of dust blown on board his ship from the coast of Africa, nearly 400 miles away, during four days in March 1838. Gives careful descriptions and relates the tests he made of it [see Collected papers 1: 200].
Declines Ray Club dinner; too busy with Zoology.
Thanks JSH for presenting his work to Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Asks him to get an answer from W. H. Miller on specimen of crystallised mineral.
FitzRoy is hard at work on his book [Narrative, vol. 2].
CD’s health is improved.
Describes his visit to zoo.
Gives news of E. A. Darwin and Harriet Martineau.
Postpones meeting with CD because he must attend House of Commons for Factory Amendment Act.
Thanks for ham and corrections in spelling. Gives account of his social activities in past week.
His books grow in size. Hopes to bring out work on volcanic islands and coral formations in the autumn or winter. The Journal of researches will not be published until autumn [actually not until 1839]. Whewell and Lyell flatter him about it. Has given up all society.
Recounts dinner at Erasmus’ house with Harriet Martineau and others, and a visit to Cambridge to stay with Henslow and meet old friends again.
Would like to attend a lecture by JFR on "geography of plants with relation to the Himalayas".
"A grand battle" at the Geological Society between Sedgwick and G. B. Greenough.
Reports on the effects of inbreeding in dogs and the results of crossing Canada and common geese.
Thanks CD for suggestions for improving his descriptions of species by indicating localities. With few exceptions the Chalcidites of South America and Australia are remarkably like European species.
His [first] railway journey was disappointing.
Reports arrival at Falklands; weather conditions, and unsuccessful search he made for a geological formation CD had seen. Describes cliffs, streams, rocks, and lines of elevation; includes two drawings.
Expresses her pleasure at CD’s engagement.
Hopes the Darwins in Shrewsbury will help her convince CD that he must not hurry their marriage too greatly. Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood [II] adds a postscript to the same effect.
Sends congratulations on CD’s engagement. "It is a marriage which will give almost as much pleasure to the rest of the world as it does to yourselves."
Expresses her pleasure and satisfaction in CD’s forthcoming marriage.
In his first letter after their engagement, CD reports on the happy reception of the news by his family. He hopes she will not find life with him solitary and dull after the lively social life of Maer.