Regrets that GJR was passed over for membership in Royal Society. Discusses criteria applied by Council.
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Regrets that GJR was passed over for membership in Royal Society. Discusses criteria applied by Council.
Thanks WCM for plant.
Mentions "your new room" at Down.
CD will call on Tuesday morning.
CD’s gardener says not to sow onion seeds until middle of March. Should he risk sowing them at once?
Does not believe that nature of milk can affect character of child.
Facts about starling very curious, but CD now absorbed by vegetable physiology. Not likely to attend to animal minds again.
Sympathises with GJR on dreadful loss [of his sister, Georgina].
Can GJR visit Down?
Onions not yet up.
Bones in goose’s wing perfectly normal. Malformation probably due to want of balance in muscles; analogous to club-foot. Injury of the parent not reproduced in offspring, but may have led to disturbance in functions of nerves which control muscles. Would like further study.
Monstrosity of fuchsia sent by GD not uncommon.
Does not recall bats at Galapagos.
Encloses report by W. H. Flower on goose’s wing.
Asks RAB to obtain wings from young birds and broken wing from old one. Asks about details of injury.
Invites GJR to visit on the 18th.
Sends two pages from MS chapter on instinct. Presumes it is too late for chapter to be of use to GJR.
After train ride Baby [Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin] calls every vehicle "boo boo".
GJR may have CD’s MS chapter on instinct. It was abstracted for Origin, but CD probably will not prepare it for publication.
Thanks RAB for kindness. Says W. H. Flower will examine wings [of geese].
Requests that a box of specimen goose wings for CD be forwarded by the Institution to [W. H.] Flower at the Royal College of Surgeons. The wings bear on the transmission of the effects of injury.
Discusses "highly expressive" speech of young children.
Explains difficulties in supplying wings of geese. Describes injury of old gander that sired the abnormal geese.
Encloses letters from Blair on inheritance of injured wing in geese. Says specimens have been sent.
Mentions case of pigeon born without eyes.
Regrets that LAE went to Down for nothing.
Regrets not seeing CD.
Congratulates CD on election to French Academy.
Comments on GJR’s lecture on animal intelligence [Rep. BAAS].
Comments on J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie [1876].
Suggests that GJR keep a young monkey to observe.