CD’s photograph evokes PGK’s reminiscence of CD in the Beagle.
CD’s photograph evokes PGK’s reminiscence of CD in the Beagle.
Attacks by Falconer [Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] and Joseph Prestwich on Lyell.
W. B. Carpenter fails to attack Owen.
Welwitschia male cones with useless ovules marvellous example of lost function and retained structure.
JDH evaluates his sons.
AG’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man.
Has been in France, conveys good wishes from Quatrefages.
Describes the fossil of an unusual mammal head from Brazil.
Sends CD a form he has devised of a proper genealogical table of three or four generations of the families of medical cases, so that hereditary transmission may be more accurately and fully recorded.
Expresses hope that CD is ready to pronounce sentence on his book;
he relates his financial position and mentions that he hopes to get a position at the British Museum.
Has not yet read the pamphlets [selection of reviews of Origin, sent by CD at GB’s request]. Though GB does not go so far as Hooker in accepting all of CD’s hypotheses and does not feel up to a thorough discussion of his views, he hopes in his Linnean Anniversary Address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1863): xi–xxix] to speak on the present state of the [species] question.
Thanks for paper on Linum [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
One of his gardeners [John Scott] is also studying such fertilisation and appreciates CD’s encouragement; Scott has paper to read for Edinburgh Botanical Society.
Sent off Corydalis. Observations on Corydalis pistils.
Is very grateful for CD’s note and return of the bond for £250; promises to repay CD any profits made from those shares, even in the event of DTA’s death.
Is sorry to hear CD is ill.
Observations on Catasetum.
Figs require insects in order to set seed.
Further description of the Toxodon-like mammal, Typotherium.
Bryanthus erectus, said by [D. D.?] Cunningham to be a hybrid, has been found wild in North America.
Has obtained fossils from Gibraltar that he believes are human. Requests Lyell’s address so that he can send the bones.
Reminds CD of their acquaintance at Ilkley Wells; encloses portrait of self;
describes the topography, trade, commerce, produce, and population of São Paulo province.
Sends pieces of rock blasted for railway for CD to analyse.
CD’s Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Sending up-to-date railway map of southern region.
JDH has lost a letter from Julius von Haast intended for CD.