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Has just finished his work [? The martyrdom of man (1872)]. The new points are: (1) Negroes have whiskers; (2) their music is sometimes agreeable; (3) the Kaffirs are Negroes.
Plans for visit to CD.
Has failed to discover the signs of earthworm activity that CD described.
On how various human emigrations have supported the work of natural selection.
Defends the view that soil and air account for taller stature of westerners in U. S.
Will see CD tomorrow.
CD insists too strongly, in Descent, on man’s origin from a simian ancestor, rather than some other primate.
Describes habits of worms.
Discusses Leersia experiments.
A. G. Butler has named the specimens sent by CD with Fritz Müller’s letter.
Sends several facts relating to sexual selection, mimicry, and hybrids.
Discusses the possibility that mimicked and mimicking forms have descended from originally allied forms and have diverged in structure but not in appearance.
CD is urged to increase to 20 his shares in the Artizans, Labourers & General Dwellings Co. Ltd. Many prominent people have done so.
On colours and breeding of rabbits.
Endorses revised statement about Butler’s odd hereditary habit;
describes a séance at William Crookes’s.
Data relating to experiments; shrinkage of earth on drying.
Sends two vines for CD’s experiments, with instructions for grafting.
Mentions a hybrid plum–peach.
Would like to do Russian translation of Expression.
May come to England.
Has forwarded CD’s letter to Crookes.
Requests letter recommending him for the Chair of General and Comparative Physiology at the Royal Veterinary College.
His analysis and explanation of the fact, observed by Charles Bell, that the eyeballs are turned upwards and inwards when consciousness begins to fail.
Encloses a letter from Mr Moran, conveyed by Mr Lawrence.
Sends preface of his book [see 8241]; he acknowledges debt to CD, but does not claim to have given a correct exposition of Darwinism.
Will attempt to draw the two expressions CD wants.