Hoped to meet CD at the Linnean Society to discuss pigeon and poultry breeding experiments.
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Hoped to meet CD at the Linnean Society to discuss pigeon and poultry breeding experiments.
Thanks for "monkey book" [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)].
Must wait till he has finished Lyell [Antiquity of man (1863)].
Sends Acropera capsule for CD to dissect.
Will try to raise Acropera from seed (never done before in Britain) to examine its sexual forms.
Studying primroses, parthenogenesis, and reproduction of some cryptogams.
Received maize varieties from CD.
Discusses experiments that WBT will undertake to investigate whether particular pigeon and poultry crosses produce sterile hybrids.
Discusses the structure and particular uniformities of the Shropshire coal-seams and surrounding strata; speculates on their origins.
Received JDD’s book [Manual of geology (1862)]
and pamphlet on man ["On the higher subdivisions in the classification of mammals", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 35 (1863): 65–71].
Fully admits JDD’s objections are valid. But is convinced of the general truth of his own views (with much incidental error), because they embrace so many phenomena and explain them.
Discusses some mistakes Owen has made;
Falconer’s disagreement with Owen ["On the mammalian genus Plagiaulax", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 348–69].
Has not answered CD’s former letters. Has been ill. Will look up fish business as soon as he is square again.
Dining arrangements.
Thanks JS for the very large Acropera capsule. CD has perhaps made a blunder about the sex of Acropera.
JS was right that successive homomorphic generations of Primula breed true.
Plants, safely arrived from Kew, fill new greenhouse.
Glad RF approves of book [Origin].
Impossible in many cases to conjecture how structures acquired.
Comments on degeneration of civilised man.
Recommends Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)].
Quotes praise of AG’s pamphlet [see 2938].
Comments on U. S. politics.
Owen’s cutting critique of Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man] in Athenæum [21 Feb 1863, pp. 262–3]. JDH despises Owen’s mind too much to hate his individuality.
Will observe fertilisation of melastomads as CD requests.
Observations on fertilisation by ants.
Detailed observations on sexes in Catasetum, which were made before he received Orchids and which differ from CD’s findings.
CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man and of Owen’s comment on it.
Disappointed Lyell has not spoken out on species and on man.
Pleasure of new hothouse and the plants JDH supplied for it.
Pleads guilty to both criticisms of "Miss Henrietta Minor Rhadamanthus Darwin" [see 3896] of points in his Lectures [to working men].
Criticism of Antiquity of man; its public reception.
Discusses the deposition of coal and considers the possibility of coal aggregating into seams after deposition.
Praise of Man’s place.
Owen’s muddling letter in Athenæum [21 Feb 1863, pp. 262–3].
Is disappointed in Lyell’s excessive caution on species and origin of man [in Antiquity of man].
Identifies flies sent to him by CD. [CD note states that these were found with orchid pollinia adhering to them.]