Sends a bill he thinks is Caroline’s.
Tells CD of officers’ praise of Leonard.
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Sends a bill he thinks is Caroline’s.
Tells CD of officers’ praise of Leonard.
Returns a pamphlet on Salvia [F. Hildebrand, "Über die Befruchtung der Salviaarten" (1865) Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. 4 (1866): 451–78].
Sends CD an article [missing] on the early domestication and culture of the goldfish.
Has met A. J. Gower, Consul at Nagasaki, Japan, who knows all about the Ainus. JDH has given away all the copies of CD’s Queries about expression.
Nettled by Pall Mall Gazette review of BAAS address [see 6342].
Owen is indeed an ass. Carlyle’s comment on Owen’s smile.
The Asa Grays at Kew.
Sexual differences in plumage of birds; various species compared.
Accepts invitation.
No summary available.
Strong support for theory of descent.
Observations on palaeobotany of S. France. Most woody angiosperm genera date far back. Magnolia type unchanged. Intermediate fossil species. Ancient species of Quercus persists as variety of modern species. Fossil evidence of ice age.
CD’s works have been an inspiration in France.
Peloric forms of flowers: Clitoria Ternatea.
Thanks for Emanuel Bonavia’s letter on a Laburnum monster.
Pleased to have met the Darwins.
Sends his photograph.
Printers are past the index in vol. 2 of Variation.
Thanks CD for invitation to Down.
Will repeat CD’s experiments on dimorphic and trimorphic plants.
Auditory organs of Orthoptera; stridulation in lamellicorn beetles.
Because of work on the first number of the new Royal Geographical Society magazine, a manual of geography, and other things, HWB finds he must decline CD’s invitation.
Sends a paper he has written [on scarlet runner].
ARW’s wife will accompany him to Down.
No summary available.
BAAS Norwich meeting. Hooker [President] came out in great force. "Darwinismus" spread over the sections and crept into everything. CD will have rare happiness of seeing his ideas triumph during his life.
On sounds produced by Euchirus longimanus beetle. Sends a pair by post.
No summary available.