Loss of juvenile colouring in South Down sheep.
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Loss of juvenile colouring in South Down sheep.
Discusses the bristling of hair in melancholics and the action of the platysma myoides muscle and the grief muscles in the insane.
Note on proportion of sexes born in sheep.
Thanks for answers about expression.
Is going to N. Wales to recover after his riding accident.
New edition of Origin.
French edition of Orchids.
WCT should send specimens to Orpington Station.
Invites him to visit, but afraid conversation "would quite knock me up".
Asks about orbicular muscles in eyes of women suffering in labour.
Inquires about treatment for dyspeptic weakness involving "Volta-Electric Chain bands".
Thanks AR for his offer to send his observation notes, but since CD will not pursue the subject of variation under domestication, and his German is poor, he urges him to publish them in some periodical.
Will use new English edition [5th, of Origin] in preparing for [4th] German edition. Bronn’s translation of Origin in the title as "Entstehung" is not so precise as "Ursprung" would be. The publisher does not object to changing the title, but JVC is doubtful, because the Origin is so well known in Germany as Entstehung. Asks CD’s opinion.
Declines invitation.
Account of his Russian trip.
Glad JTM intends to write a paper. Discusses JTM’s research on Arbutus.
CD’s riding accident.
Ashamed that members of the Entomological Society have almost no information on sex ratio of bred insects in response to CD’s query of months ago. One exception, William Buckler, promises results. [See Descent 1: 313.]
Thanks for information about expression.
Comments on JC-B’s photographs of insane people.
Sends copy of Duchenne [see 6755].
Asks for further information about platysma, his bête noire for a year or two.
List giving the numbers of Lepidoptera of different species reared in 1869 and the proportions of the sexes [see Descent 1: 313].
Observations on birds entering the country in spring. Some have clods of earth on their feet.
Frankfurt Zoological Garden has only male mandrill. Does CD want description? Antwerp garden may have a pair.
Sends CD a copy of his new book Sismopirologia [1869]. Is sending no other copy to England because his previous book was unacknowledged.
FM much gratified by the appearance of Für Darwin translation.
Discusses dimorphism in Rubiaceae.
Carus will soon begin translating 5th ed. of Origin.
Sale of Variation is satisfying.
C. J. Dub will write popular work on CD’s theory.
Gustav Jäger has written on it [Die Darwin’sche Theorie und ihre Stellung zu Moral und Religion (1869)].
Thanks correspondent, "Ponderer", for pointing out his erroneous calculation of the rate of increase of elephants in Origin [p. 64]. [!?or p. 74!? (see 6775f), or 75, (see 6790)]