Describes habits of worms.
Discusses Leersia experiments.
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Describes habits of worms.
Discusses Leersia experiments.
Received copy of Origin 6th ed. Has had trouble with worm measurements at Winchester.
A. G. Butler has named the specimens sent by CD with Fritz Müller’s letter.
Sends several facts relating to sexual selection, mimicry, and hybrids.
Discusses the possibility that mimicked and mimicking forms have descended from originally allied forms and have diverged in structure but not in appearance.
CD is urged to increase to 20 his shares in the Artizans, Labourers & General Dwellings Co. Ltd. Many prominent people have done so.
Endorses revised statement about Butler’s odd hereditary habit;
describes a séance at William Crookes’s.
Sends two vines for CD’s experiments, with instructions for grafting.
Mentions a hybrid plum–peach.
Data relating to experiments; shrinkage of earth on drying.
Would like to do Russian translation of Expression.
May come to England.
Has forwarded CD’s letter to Crookes.
Requests letter recommending him for the Chair of General and Comparative Physiology at the Royal Veterinary College.
Asks BR to make two drawings of dogs to show expressions. Discusses expressions of hostile dog and caressing dog.
His analysis and explanation of the fact, observed by Charles Bell, that the eyeballs are turned upwards and inwards when consciousness begins to fail.
Testimonial letter. JM would be well fitted for the Chair of General and Comparative Physiology of the Royal Veterinary College.
Thanks for sending translation of A. W. Malm’s paper ["On flatfishes", K. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. N. F. 7 (1867–8) no. 4]; thinks it establishes that eye migrates across surface of head rather than through the skull.
Considers the relationship between direction of locomotion and the presence of stalked eyes in Crustacea.
Encloses a letter from Mr Moran, conveyed by Mr Lawrence.
Will attempt to draw the two expressions CD wants.
Sends preface of his book [see 8241]; he acknowledges debt to CD, but does not claim to have given a correct exposition of Darwinism.
Discusses Mivart’s reply ["Genesis of species", North Am. Rev. 114 (1872): 451–68] to CW’s review and to Huxley.
Asks whether CD knows anyone to whom he could usefully send a copy of his phyllotaxy paper [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415].
Thanks for kindness. BR must not think of trying until he feels inclination and strength for task.
Comments on AW’s work [Einfluss der Isolierung (1872)].
Discusses formation of local races.
Conchologist should investigate whether species of same genus vary during successive geological periods.
Comments on Franz Hilgendorf ["Über Planorbis multiformis", Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1866): 474–504].
Believes sexual selection will be judged a powerful agency.