Thanks CD for invitation to Down.
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Thanks CD for invitation to Down.
Will repeat CD’s experiments on dimorphic and trimorphic plants.
Auditory organs of Orthoptera; stridulation in lamellicorn beetles.
Because of work on the first number of the new Royal Geographical Society magazine, a manual of geography, and other things, HWB finds he must decline CD’s invitation.
Sends a paper he has written [on scarlet runner].
ARW’s wife will accompany him to Down.
BAAS Norwich meeting. Hooker [President] came out in great force. "Darwinismus" spread over the sections and crept into everything. CD will have rare happiness of seeing his ideas triumph during his life.
On sounds produced by Euchirus longimanus beetle. Sends a pair by post.
Comments on THF’s MS [on fertilisation of scarlet runners]. Suggests publication, though CD anticipated main features ten years before. Is amused at the caution with which THF put his case that the final end [of the contrivances] was crossing distinct individuals.
Sends essay by Karl Bettelheim.
Describes preparations for scientific journey.
Acknowledges letter of 31 August and various works. Regrets he is unable to help GH with his works but will seek to interest Tyndall. Discourages GH on prospect of publication of his new book in England.
CD’s oscillating views relating to protection and sexual selection.
B. D. Walsh has not received his copy of Variation. Several other foreign correspondents have similar complaints.
Reached Kew last evening.
Hooker is in Scotland for two or three days.
Reports a case of peculiar colouring in grapes, each with well-defined segments of purple.
Thanks JSB for his information about coloured grapes, but asks that he take no further trouble.
Wonders if George Darwin can explain why a thin stream of water poured from a jug always spirals right to left.
Encouraged by CD’s reply. Sends another paper, on blue Lobelia.
Asks advice on books.
Submits a 15–point argument against CD’s views on the coloration of female birds and insects.
JM will send another copy of Variation to B. D. Walsh.
Thanks JDC for paper ["American Cervus", Trans. Ottawa Acad. Nat. Sci. (1868); read 21 May 1868].