Thanks for informing him that the New York Liberal Club has elected him a member. Responds to request to give advice to beginners in biology.
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Thanks for informing him that the New York Liberal Club has elected him a member. Responds to request to give advice to beginners in biology.
Offers to send some of his botanical field notes.
Convinced that certain families and genera vary in certain directions. Cites Lobelia’s "inclination" to produce albinos and other cases.
Reports a plant that is abundant in localities unfitted for its full development.
Wild buffaloes will help a wounded calf.
Response to CD’s views among American naturalists.
Not surprised that JBI does not agree with him. Many professed naturalists do not. But there has been a great change since publication of Origin, and CD believes agreement on man will come soon, "as far as his corporeal frame is concerned".
Horsman has not been heard from.
[Reference to Japanese nuthatch (see Descent, 2d ed., p. 410 n.) excised from letter.]
Sorry they will not have Frank Darwin with them any more.