Does not know rules for admission to museum [of the Royal College of Surgeons]. CD’s son [Francis] wishes much to inspect some of the preparations.
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Does not know rules for admission to museum [of the Royal College of Surgeons]. CD’s son [Francis] wishes much to inspect some of the preparations.
On the Christian God; questioning of CD’s religious beliefs.
Regrets he has not time to develop points touched on in her letter and that he does not understand what information she wants.
Writes at length on importance of God and Catholicism, and the need to seek salvation.
Observations on expression.
As a follower of CD, Spencer, and Kant, wishes to announce his work on the origin of "foolish illnesses" and prostitution [? Kort begrip der proefunderlijke zielkunde (1869)].
Extract from Robert Knox on hermaphroditism [Lond. Med. Gaz. 12 Jan 1844].
Describes a pouting expression in a 3½–year-old child.
An instance of long memory in a horse.
All the inhabitants of Down hope JL will endeavour to induce the Post Office to improve the telegraph service.
No summary available.
Will observe old furrowed fields for CD in the early spring. Suggests locations in Scotland and Rugby with ridge and furrowing in old pastures.
Is infinitely obliged for a correction. "You men who do only or chiefly original work have an immense advantage over compilers like myself, as you can know what to trust." Wishes he had consulted PLS before using A. E. Brehm’s Thierleben woodcuts [for Descent]. PLS’s assistance has saved him from "endless blunders"; he now feels safe.
Depth of furrows in old field.
Is grateful for the interest he takes in her son and for his letter. Comments on the German war. Has a house full of visitors. It has been very cold and they have been without water.
On sexual selection and the sense of beauty among the W. African Negroes.
Sends his new work, Ulteriori osservazioni sulla dicogomia pt 2, fasc. 1.
Has found no nectar in Orchis morio or O. maculata in Italy and has seen no insects visiting the plants.
Gives his observations on cross- and self-fertilisation in cereals.
More speculations [see 5811] on the evolutionary development of man, relating progress to the consumption of better food and the availability of moist air.
JDH thanks Asa Gray for sending him some apples. He & Mr Smith compare the variety sent, the 'Northern Spy', to English apples including the 'Ribstone Pippen' & the 'Nonsuch'. Discusses his work on the Rubiaceae family including the genera: Psychotria, Cephaelis, Nonateleiae[?], Rudgea ,Palicourea, Chasalia & Grumilea. Next he will work on Borreroids, including Hedyotoids. George Bentham is working on Compositae, currently struggling with Gnaphalia. JDH's wife, Frances Hooker, has finished translating Decaisne & Maout & Hooker himself did some work on the introduction. [John Gilbert] Baker is working on Monocots. [Thomas] Thomson is neglecting his work on the FLORA INDICA & there are problems with the printing & the length. JDH intends to take over editorship & organize it into a shorter manual with the different orders contributed by expert authors. JDH's mother, Lady Maria Hooker, is ill in Torquay but recovering. JDH thanks Gray for Cytinus, Apodanthes, a paper on Galax & his attention to Rubiaceae. JDH must put off his trip to California, he worries he is getting too old but takes comfort that Sir H. Holland just went over the Blue mountains of Jamaica aged over 80. Murchison has Hemiplegia & has resigned himself to death, his likely successor as President of the Geographical Society is Sir H. Rawlinson. Letter appears incomplete & is unsigned but is written in the hand of Joseph Dalton Hooker.
Sends an abstract of his research entitled 'The Effects of Tide on Planetary Motion.'