Invites WO to lunch.
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Invites WO to lunch.
Regrets the trouble GHD has had.
Invites correspondent to luncheon on Friday or Saturday.
Farrer has taken the case to Northcote. JDH’s letter will show how overworked he is.
Appleton will bring out the new edition of Descent in the U. S., so GHD’s work will now be in three editions.
Invites TB to visit. Wants to make his acquaintance.
Wants to see Huxley tomorrow, but knows he is going down to High Elms to see Colenso.
Returns historical sketch [of GHD’s "cousin paper"?] with comments. "For Heavens sake put a sentence in some conspicuous place that your results seem to indicate that consanguineous marriage, as far as insanity is concerned, cannot be injurious in any very high degree."
Speaks of visiting GJR at the Brown Institution.
Praises JF’s book [Cosmic philosophy (1874)].
Has long wished to understand H. Spencer but is not convinced by him and some others. CD cannot trust deduction from a starting principle, as his mind is so fixed by the inductive method.
Thanks for the essay on a curious new cirripede. He will not accept the offer of microscopical preparations.
Invites GJR to visit.
Thanks for translation of his Journal of researches. Is pleased by its appearance.
Also thank Edmond Barbier for his kind words. [See 9752.]
Thanks for work on Lacerta muralis coerulea [Zoologische Studien auf Capri 2 (1874)].
Thanks JDH for his and Huxley’s countering of the false attack on George [Darwin] by Mivart. Encloses a note to Mivart on which he asks JDH’s opinion.
Sends a suggested title [for Insectivorous plants?].
Asks JL to send ten shillings for the Down Friendly Club.
Has just read JL’s paper on bees and wasps [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 110–39]. Is astonished by their stupidity. The experiments on colour are especially good. Suggests JL examine their retinas; sends enclosure [missing] on eyes of reptiles and birds.
Thanks GJR for copy of his book [Christian prayer and general laws (1874)].
Discusses breeding and sterility.
Discusses experiments to test Pangenesis. Cites useful references.
Suggests GJR visit Kew gardens.
Asks four favours: sort out confusion about the name Byblis gigantea or grandiflora; can he see dried specimens of Genlisea ornata; is there a more recent list of Drosera spp. than Steudel 1841; are there at Kew any dried specimens of Utricularia montana collected from the plant’s native haunts.
Thanks for his Methods of ethics [1874].