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.
Asks JH for copies of both Latin and English translations of Schiller's 'Walk'.
Thanks for his kind note and his tracts on Atoms and Forces. Thinks J. S. Mill's Logic is dangerous. Hopes he will read his book thoroughly and not be too critical of his astronomy.
In response to JH's comments on JT's explanation of comets says faintness of head and nucleus does not indicate non-existence; eye may not see all. Experiments with polarized light produce 'gorgeous' 'residual blue.'
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.
Will JH be able to attend the forthcoming meeting of the Board of Visitors? If not would he inform the Board of his intentions.
Declines invitation.
Note to accompany the reported observations of JH's son John.
Proportion of sexes in (new-born) lambs equal, but males more likely to die.
Unable to attend the forthcoming meeting of the Board of Visitors. Would like to resign from the Board as his enfeebled health will prevent him from attending future meetings.
Has received his book on symbolism from the publishers. Comments on some of its views. Feels he has been treated a little harshly.
Inquires how CD arrived at the conclusion that fifteen million elephants could be produced from a single pair in five centuries [Origin, 5th ed., p. 74].
Account of his Russian trip.
Correction to be made in JH's biographical sketch of William Whewell.