Response to Descent. Suggests some human races may have been produced by natural rather than sexual selection.
Response to Descent. Suggests some human races may have been produced by natural rather than sexual selection.
No summary available.
WMH will negotiate with William Farrer on Horace’s marriage-settlement. Will attempt to make the settlement £5000, the same as Francis received.
Wants seedling of Quercus rubra or Q. coccinea.
CD complains of unfair treatment by EK’s publisher [of Erasmus Darwin, Karl Alberts], who has written that he now does not want the copies of the photographs CD has ordered for him. Is sure that EK will agree that the costs should be deducted from any profits from the sales.
Promises to send an oak.
Invites ARW to visit him as he can answer his questions more satisfactorily in person.
Success of his experiments; report on recent work.
Hopes CD will be able to plant a tree in VAEGM’s garden as a memorial of his visit.
Sends some doggerel verse about a literary dandy who is critical of Darwin and Spencer and approves of Ruskin.