Has received a copy of an attack on CD ["Darwinian theory examined"] from the author, but does not know who it is.
Has received a copy of an attack on CD ["Darwinian theory examined"] from the author, but does not know who it is.
Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge.
Has still not discovered the author of "Darwinian theory examined".
Thanks for copy of Variation. Comments on it, especially on Pangenesis.
Sends CD a copy of a book he has had printed mainly for the interest of his children and grandchildren [later published as Recollections of past life (1872)].
JH's translation of first canto of Dante's Inferno (1868) is best HH has ever seen. Thanks for JH's commendation of HH's own translations [?]. More observations of soap bubbles.
References to works on probability;
statistics on proportion of sexes in births in England and Wales.
A month in the West Indies, where he saw the luxuriant struggle of tropical vegetation, has brought HH "still more closely within the circle" of CD’s doctrine.
Thanks for copy of Descent.
Seeks HH’s support for Hooker in JDH’s difficulties with A. S. Ayrton and the Ministry of Works [see Nature 6 (1872): 211–16].
Sends CD a ptarmigan.
Has finished reading Descent and sends some comments [missing].
No summary available.