On the increases in crossbred English and Tahitian population of Pitcairn islanders. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 190.] Includes copy of letter from George Hunn Nobbs about the population of Norfolk Island.
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On the increases in crossbred English and Tahitian population of Pitcairn islanders. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 190.] Includes copy of letter from George Hunn Nobbs about the population of Norfolk Island.
French translation of Expression sent for CD’s approval.
Sends CD the number of Pitcairn islanders transferred to Norfolk Island cited in her deceased husband’s book [Sir William Thomas Denison, Varieties of a vice-regal life (1870)] but is unable to furnish additional information.
Reports on a séance. "The Lord have mercy on us all if we have to believe in such rubbish."
Asks JDH to vote for his nephew, Henry Parker, for Athenaeum membership.
A new German edition of Descent is planned. Would like to work on proofs before leaving for lectures at Edinburgh.
JHM, who has not read CD’s works, must conduct a discussion on Darwinism and theology at a local literary society. He asks CD to define briefly his position on the origin of man and on descent.
An awful row at the Linnean Society. William Carruthers and Co. packed a meeting to throw out a decision of the Council. He was beaten by one vote (more than two-thirds majority needed).
Spent two hours with Lyell talking about Thomas Belt’s book [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)]: "the tropical old Glaciers beat the seance I do think".
Lyell agrees that the glacial epoch is the great geological crux of the day. Lowering of the ocean level must also be investigated.
Curious about A. C. Ramsay’s paper coming at Royal Society on 29th ["On the comparative value of certain geological ages", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 22 (1874): 145–8].
Huxley’s new book [? Critiques and addresses (1873)].
Russian Expression has sold nearly 2000 copies.
Plans to come to England to study collections of vertebrate fossils from the Chalk. This will complement his work in the south of France.
Has grown haricots in England following CD’s suggestion in the Origin that this had never been done.
Wishes to see CD.
Discusses coral reefs
and encloses a copy of his "Reisebericht" [Z. Wiss. Zool. 13 (1863): 538–70], as requested by CD.
Reports to CD on a spiritualist séance attended by himself (incognito) and G. H. Darwin.
On obtaining Clerk Maxwell’s memoir on Saturn for his wife, Sofya.
CD elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [See 9305.]
On proportion of sexes in births of cattle; variations in families. Encloses a letter from J. G. Grove on proportions of sexes in animals.
The limitation of inbreeding.
Has finished the index [for Descent, 2d ed.].
[Valediction and signature only.]