Much perplexed by W. Crookes’s article. He can neither disbelieve nor believe. Article has removed some of his difficulty in that the supposed power is not an anomaly. Hopes men such as G. G. Stokes will be induced to witness Crookes’s experiments.
Much perplexed by W. Crookes’s article. He can neither disbelieve nor believe. Article has removed some of his difficulty in that the supposed power is not an anomaly. Hopes men such as G. G. Stokes will be induced to witness Crookes’s experiments.
Sends comments from himself and Erasmus Darwin on proofs of chapter 7 of Origin 6th ed.
Horns of castrated merino rams remain almost undeveloped.
The horns of castrated male lambs compared with horns of ewes. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 506.]
Sends CD a German pamphlet, "War Goethe ein Darwinianer?"
Displays in turkeys.
Asks for some pamphlets, the titles of which have been sent to him by Dr Spengel [see 8053].
Asks that the rabbits CD has kept be sent to him; will continue [transfusion] experiments on rats, but using larger [surgical] connection.
No summary available.
Sends back proofs. Praises CD for calm treatment of Mivart. Looks at duck’s mouth. Asks whether CD has seen Snow’s article in the Spectator.
Will send FD’s work [Studi sopra un lignaggio anemofilo delle composte (1871)] to Nature for review.
CD’s health has been poor all summer – he doubts that he will ever "have the strength to publish on Variability under a state of Nature".
Hopes to publish on cross- and self-fertilisation next summer.
Encloses his photo and asks for FD’s.
Effect of turf covering on the disintegration of rocks. Weathering of rock; relative importance of different agents with different rocks.
No summary available.
Reports how his sons enjoyed their trip to America.
Is glad SRSN is settled in Dresden.
Thanks for information on platycnemic tibiae found in America. Believes the condition is of two kinds as exemplified by Gibraltar and Cro-Magnon tibiae on one side and the Welsh form on the other. Would like to know which of the two forms the American bones are; their proportions suggest they are very like the Welsh tibiae.
Going to Down to see the "most curious" results.
Offers to provide information on the habits of the animals of northern New York and Canada.
Sending 100 copies of a reply to Hampden, to be distributed at a Society.
Thanks HL for his kind note, the interesting notice, & the photograph.
He has made a mistake about the Lepas. It is the L. australis that is confined to the S. Hemisphere. L. hillii is found all over the world. Refers HL to Living Cirripedia [1851].
No summary available.