Agrees to contribute £10 towards a new road in the area of Beckenham, although he doubts whether the road will be of much use to him.
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Agrees to contribute £10 towards a new road in the area of Beckenham, although he doubts whether the road will be of much use to him.
Discusses books about cats and crosses in cats. Thanks her for her book on cats.
JDD is sending a copy of his book, Corals and coral islands [1872], with his compliments.
Sends MS of a book on progressive development on this planet and in the universe. Asks CD to underwrite its publication.
Has replied [in North Am. Rev. 115 (1872): 1–30] to Mivart’s communication to the North American Review [114 (1872): 451–68].
Discusses the degree of fixedness of different characters in organisms.
Again seeks help with his rabbits; hopes one of CD’s men can take them.
Thanks for CD’s books [unspecified].
Agrees to care for FG’s rabbits and will breed from them.
Plans to go to Southampton for ten days.
Invites correspondent to dinner and overnight the next Friday, and gives directions at length from London to Down. "I have heard from Mr Litchfield that you are in London … will you give us the pleasure of seeing you here".
AM [wife of Jules Michelet] offers information on crosses in cats.
Delighted CD’s groom will take the rabbits;
has just done proof of a paper to the Royal Society on "blood-relationship", defining kinship between parents and offspring.
Sends a drawing of dog’s expression for CD to approve and return.
Comments on drawing of dog. Will get it engraved [see Expression, pp. 52, 53].
Will send MS of Expression to printers next week.
Thanks CD for his note and cheque for young May.
Will send copy of second edition of Erewhon, in which he has set himself straight about "having intended no villainy by the machines". [See 8318.]
Send parcel to Orpington station.
A review and criticism of Chauncey Wright’s paper on phyllotaxy [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415]. Does not believe that the "distributive" and "cyclical" properties, which CW claims characterise the existing spiral orders of leaf arrangement, can be shown to be advantageous to plants. CW’s speculations on the origins of the spiral arrangement of leaves are purely hypothetical.
Sends, via C. L. Brace, his book [Botany for young people, pt 2 How plants behave (1872)], "your own science adapted to juvenile minds".
Wishes to insert R. B. Litchfield’s remarks [into Expression] but will not give them as his own.