An extract from Macrobius’ Saturnalia dealing with blushing.
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An extract from Macrobius’ Saturnalia dealing with blushing.
Has marked a page from Adam Bede which may be relevant to CD’s work on expression.
Jessie [Wedgwood] says driving in sun made one of her eyes water.
Sends extract from Charma [Essai sur le langage (1846)] on the origin of nodding and shaking the head [See Expression, p. 273 n. 17].
Extract from Seneca’s letters establishes that hiding the face in shame was not a classical gesture.
On origin of hand-shaking.
Expression: derivation of the term "brown study".
A fragment that may contain information for Expression.
Describes his experiments in fertilising Oncidium flexuosum and comparison with Notylia.
Has been examining Catasetum.
Encloses seeds of two species of Gesneria and describes hairs in the seed capsule. Hairs in other plants seem to have a different function.
Starting tomorrow for a botanical excursion on the Continent.
William Clowes [printer for J. Murray] estimates that Variation will come to a first volume of 648 pages and a second volume of 624 pages – which is too much for volumes the same size as Origin. Murray proposes a larger size.
Thanks CD for his kindness and hopes one day to return it.
Finds more and more observations fall in with CD’s theory but still finds it difficult to account for the sudden leaps in the fossil record and to explain why some organisms first appear as such high forms.
On Haeckel’s Generelle Morphologie; the logical argument for natural selection is still incomplete. THH jumps over the hole by an act of faith.
CD should not be discouraged by the bulk of Variation. CD’s suggestion to print technical details in small type is good.
Murray has sent MS to a "man of letters and good information" as an experiment to test its effect. Has no intention of throwing up publication.
Sends paper on new species of Bonatea, to which he has given the name Darwinii.
Has now an extensive collection of insects.
Has discovered moths whose larva cases resemble perfectly the thorns of the Acacia horrida.
Has asked for the head of a Bushman murderer. Difficult to convince authorities of interest of science.
Has given CD’s queries about expression to W. H. Stirling. Thomas Bridges, the catechist, had previously answered some questions incompletely [see 2643]; BJS forwards them [see Expression].
BJS answers CD’s query about when some calves show their adult colour.
MS essay "On esculent fruits" [apparently enclosed in a missing letter].
Responds to CD’s criticisms. JDH is sometimes confused as to what he has borrowed from CD.
Will introduce Charles Kingsley to CD.
JL’s brother-in-law [Robert Birkbeck] would like a note of introduction to John Murray.
Asks CD questions relating to the revised translation of Origin.