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Returns [Fritz?] Müller’s work [probably Für Darwin (1864)]. It is a remarkable memoir.
Suggests a memorial from Huxley, Murchison, and other geologists on the Gallegos fossils. He will speak privately to Duke of Somerset.
Lengthy analysis of sources of misunderstanding of natural selection. Advocacy of Spencer’s term "survival of the fittest" instead of "Natural Selection". ARW urges CD to stress frequency of variations.
No summary available.
Is trying to arrange a new American edition of Origin.
Gives notes on Passiflora acerifolia [on cover].
All the blocks [for Variation] are now engraved except the rock-dove.
Fritz Müller’s paper ["Notes on climbing plants"] is about to appear [in J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9]. Would CD approve of figures being reduced in size?
Sends onion and mint seeds.
Has taken memorial to G. H. Richards, the Hydrographer. He favours the proposal and will instruct Capt. Mayne. THH will communicate with Dr Cunningham, the naturalist for the expedition.
Asks CD if he can explain the results of an experiment that produced barley from oats that had been cut down to prevent their flowering.
Asks for CD’s opinion of the manner of migration of the eye of flatfish.
Barley growing from old oat stalks.
Thanks CD for photograph.
JvH will send his notes on origin of species;
he is now writing a paper on glacier period of the New Zealand west coast, and his account of the highly glaciated headwater region of the Rakaia River is being printed.
About duties in consequence of the death of Catherine Langton, née Darwin.
On H. A. Dubois’ attack on "Darwin, Huxley and Lyell"
and H. J. Clark’s Mind in nature [1865].
BDW’s work [on Cynipidae].
Appleton’s cannot alter their plates so as to reproduce revised work [Origin, 4th ed.]. Has made it clear that CD could not do otherwise than object strenuously to course they intend to pursue, and has asked them to return the sheets. Wishes CD’s publisher would supply U. S. market with large numbers of copies, as the English edition could well compete with any American one. Encloses [statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin to 1 February 1866].
Proposes to delay issue [of 4th ed. of Origin] until November to obtain better market conditions. Now printing 1250 copies.
Explains practice of not cutting pages is due to propensity of English public to read books without buying them.
Will attend to CD’s wishes regarding six presentation copies [of Origin, 4th ed.] for England and America.
Assures CD of his belief in descent from his first reading of Origin.
Describes a case of dichogamy.
Working on "Insular floras" lecture for BAAS Nottingham meeting [see 5135].
Puzzled at distribution of Madeiran and Canaries plants and insects.
Supports Forbes’s Atlantis hypothesis [see 956], which he has reread and to which he will allude.
Wollaston disappointing on Madeiran insects.
