Will send village carrier for volumes [of the Trans. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India].
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Will send village carrier for volumes [of the Trans. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India].
Forwards letter from W. B. Dawkins. The bones, though not themselves interesting, may indicate the work of prehistoric man.
Has read and enjoyed the Kant that FPC sent.
Returns P. C. Despine [?Psychologie naturelle (1868)].
Discusses flora of Sandwich Isles. "There is nothing I shd enjoy so much as to visit California, but I am growing old & my health is weak".
CD writes for Emma, who is ill.
Delighted with FPC’s "most just" article [in Echo?]. Sends £1 subscription.
Thanks for telling CD about the Fraser’s Magazine article [F. W. Farrar, "Hereditary genius (by F. Galton)", n.s. 2 (1870): 251–65].
CD wrote as Justice of Peace for Kent to the Home Secretary about Holder’s case.
Tropaeolum transmits every shade of colour if self-fertilised for six or seven generations.
Discusses CD’s and her own views on ‘moral sense’.
CD is reading the Theological Review (Cobbe 1871) with the greatest interest and attention.
Thanks for FPC’s book (presumablyAlone to the alone: prayers for theists (Cobbe ed. 1871)).
CD much interested in article ‘Darwinism in morals’ in the Theological Review (Cobbe 1871).
CDs and FPC’s views on moral sense in hive bees, and an article in the Pall Mal Gazette ([Morley] 1871b).
Thanks JF for his lectures, the arguments of which he finds very forcible; is glad to see JF has detected the falseness of much of Mivart’s reasoning.
Asks FW to thank F. P. Cobbe for her liberal offer, but the differences [between Descent and Cobbe’s review "Darwinism in morals", Theol. Rev. 33 (1871): 167–92] are too fundamental to be reconciled.
FPC’s article on consciousness of dogs is best analysis of an animal’s mind CD has read.
Regrets she quotes [Edward?] Jesse.
Since writing Descent, CD has come to believe dogs have a conscience.
Formally declines the vice-presidency of a proposed society.
CD is glad to hear of nature of JF’s work;
proposes that JF call when CD comes to London.
Has read JF’s attack on Agassiz ["Agassiz and Darwinism"] in Popular Science Monthly [3 (1873): 692–705].
Thanks for the Pinguicula plants, which have recovered, and asks if he could also send Utricularia, since his other supplies have failed.
Thanks JF for copy of Cosmic philosophy [1874].
Praises JF’s book [Cosmic philosophy (1874)].
Has long wished to understand H. Spencer but is not convinced by him and some others. CD cannot trust deduction from a starting principle, as his mind is so fixed by the inductive method.
Thanks CD for Descent
and for his praise of Cosmic philosophy [1874].
Thanks for excellent notice of Chauncey Wright.
Would like a copy of Wright’s "Darwinism in Germany" [Nation 21 (1875): 168–70].
Thanks for EK’s book [Werden und Vergehen (1876)].
Regrets he cannot write for EK’s journal, but his son, Francis, may do so.
Suggests EK as editor urge on readers [of Kosmos] the investigation of the causes of variability; why, for instance, do wild Pampas cattle change colour when domesticated? Thinks experiments and observations on recently domesticated animals and cultivated plants would throw light on the subject.
Thanks for the reviews, particularly the one in the Times.
CD will be pleased to receive Mr Wallace.