Corrects chemical concentrations CD has been using [in insectivorous plant experimentation].
Corrects chemical concentrations CD has been using [in insectivorous plant experimentation].
Writes for CD to thank RS for his very valuable information.
Criticises CD’s letter to Nature ["Complemental males in certain cirripedes", Collected papers 2: 177–82].
On the elimination of useless parts.
GHD fails to see the point of CD’s use of the law of distribution about a mean.
Discusses his health following a visit to Dr C[lark?]. Has made an appointment for CD.
Sends CD a draft of a letter to Nature [see 9087], which he thinks expresses CD’s meaning.
Sends, with CD’s approval, a clarification of CD’s explanation of how useless organs might diminish [see 9061]. Using Quetelet’s law of normal distribution GHD shows how horns of cattle, having become useless, would gradually diminish and finally disappear.
Has decided to send the letter ["Variation of organs", Nature 8 (1873): 505].
Writes of his poor health and problems of settling in at Trinity.
Sends table showing relative force of impact of weight dropped on a plane inclined at different angles.
On bodies of varying elasticity bouncing off inclined planes [see 9096].
No summary available.
Gives his and CD’s thanks for information on consanguinity among parents of asylum inmates.
Has finished the index [for Descent, 2d ed.].
Finds statistical evidence that cousin marriages are at least three times as frequent in "our rank" as in the lower.
Sends queries [on proofs of Descent, 2d ed.]. Will be finished, except for the index, in two days.
Is now less satisfied than formerly with his statistics on cousin marriage.
[Enclosure is a copy by GHD of J. S. Mill’s statement about Origin (Logic 2: 18 n.).]
Sends Descent material. Is staggered by CD’s power of marshalling facts and his conciseness and clearness of thought. The only fault he finds is some slight want of conciseness of diction.
He feels CD’s power more now "that I quail before the thought of arranging the few paltry facts I’ve got about those d––d cousins".
Intends to keep working on [Descent, 2d ed.] proofs despite his illness.
No summary available.
After taking advice he has decided to write an explicit denial and short account of his essay and send it to the Quarterly Review.
Regrets he cannot follow the line of denial CD suggests. Explains why he must defend himself against charge that he approves of oppressive laws.
Sends a draft of his letter to the editor of the Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 587–9], answering Mivart’s charges. Encloses draft of CD’s letter to John Murray, urging publication of GHD’s defence, with George’s amendments.