Thanks for his memoir ["On the appendicular skeleton of the Primates"].
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Thanks for his memoir ["On the appendicular skeleton of the Primates"].
Sends errata for German edition of Variation.
On expression among Kaffirs.
WSD is pushing forward as fast as he can with [index to] second volume [of Variation]. The work is fearfully heavy.
Would like to come to Down on 20th or 21st.
Woolner is unwell.
Regrets that the remarks in his letter [5712] seemed to CD to be criticisms. Nothing was further from his intention. He is working hard. "The subjects often seem to elude the Index-maker."
He is sending two copies of vol. 1 of German edition of Variation. Thanks CD for rights to translate future works. Carus has begun translation of second volume. Asks when English edition will appear.
English edition of Variation delayed by the index, ES may publish German edition at the end of December. Asks that Carl Gegenbaur be substituted for Haeckel on list of presentation copies of German edition, Haeckel will receive copy of English edition.
Will return Federico Delpino’s two pamphlets soon.
Discusses the reception of CD’s views at Cambridge and elsewhere.
Variation delayed by the index, but will appear at the end of the year.
CK is drawn into discussions of Darwinism everywhere in Cambridge. The climate has changed in the past three years: the younger M.A.s are greedy to know more and the criticism of the older Fellows has a new tone.
Hopes to get afternoon train from Victoria.
Woolner comes on Sunday morning.
A sermon.
Sexual differences in reptiles, especially Indian [see A. Günther, The reptiles of British India (1864)].
The Cyprinodontidae family of fishes exhibits sexual differences as remarkable as any in reptiles or birds [Descent 2: 7, 9–10].
Thanks AG for information.
Has received a copy of an attack on CD ["Darwinian theory examined"] from the author, but does not know who it is.
Sends a copy of his paper in Ibis [2d ser. 2 (1866): 88–109] on the birds of the Azores,
and one by G. R. Crotch on the Coleoptera [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1867): 359–91].
Left his box of plants in dog-cart [on his visit to Down].
Will be pleased to receive FCG’s paper. Already has that of [G. R.] Crotch. Encourages further independent work.