Gives CD reference to case of the saiga, an antelope, fearless of man.
Reports observations by New Zealander who has seen heaps of pebbles presumably voided by Dinornis.
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Gives CD reference to case of the saiga, an antelope, fearless of man.
Reports observations by New Zealander who has seen heaps of pebbles presumably voided by Dinornis.
In despair: has lost his copy of Verlot’s memoir on variations of flowers [Sur la production et la fixation des variétés (1866)]. Has JDH borrowed it?
Is in a mess with his correspondence and will get no assistance before 1 April.
Has agreed to give an address on the Darwinian theory at Nottingham [meeting of BAAS].
Thanks for the remittance.
Both WBT and Mr Zurhorst will repeat Zurhorst’s experiment to eliminate any chance of error.
Edward Blyth is writing on Indian cattle for the Field [27 (1866): 55–6, 77].
Has found Verlot.
His sister [Emily Catherine Langton] is dying [d. 2 Feb 1866].
His stomach still very bad. Writes one or two hours and reads a little.
JDH is a wretch to remind CD of his coal-plant prophecy.
Glad JDH will give Nottingham lecture.
Discusses pigeon and poultry woodcuts [for Variation].
WBT’s poultry book is at last in the hands of a solvent publisher [The poultry book (1867)].
Sorrow about Mrs Langton. Has been haunted by death these six or eight years. Now cannot bear to look at children asleep in bed – a sight he once thought the loveliest thing in creation.
Discusses exchange of photographs with German scientists.
Comments on attitudes of German scientists toward CD’s theory.
Names several scientists who exchanged photographs: Braun, Virchow, Leydig, and Dohrn.
Last fascicles of FR’s book Der Mensch [1866] being sent.
Finds roots of human race in Negroes of Africa, Bushmen of South Africa and New Guinea, and short-headed peoples of south Asia.
Has translated natural selection as natürliche Auslese.
Ludwig Rütimeyer active in developing the descent of mammals.
Sends a paper on Bombus ["On the habits of some species of humble-bees", Commun. Essex Inst. 4 (1866): 98–104].
Is seeking election to the Royal Society.
Asks CD whether he knows of a medicine to check vomiting – for a friend dying from starvation as a result.
Duke of Somerset is looking for two naturalists for survey ship to Korea and Strait of Magellan.
Looks forward to reading Variation.
Explains how two or more female forms occur in one species through selection. The physiological problem remains of how each produces offspring like the other without intermediates. Is not CD’s case of varieties that will not blend the physiological test of a species needed for "complete proof of the origin of species"?
"Travels" postponed.
Thanks CD for supporting his application to the Royal Society.
Sends the numbers [of periodicals?] CD wished to see, and a list of other journals in which his papers have appeared.
Sends a diet for CD’s flatulence.
Memorandum of a meeting of the Natural History & Antiquarian Society held in Dumfries on Tuesday 6 February 1866.
Discusses beauty of birds and butterflies.
Reports instances of birds admiring their images in mirrors or on pictures.
Going to Orient as naturalist aboard the Rifleman. Offers CD his services.