Reports on the wholesale murder in Paris.
His wife, Sofya Kovalevsky, is working for her examinations.
VOK is studying embryology.
Alexander has left Suez and is now in Jaffa.
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Reports on the wholesale murder in Paris.
His wife, Sofya Kovalevsky, is working for her examinations.
VOK is studying embryology.
Alexander has left Suez and is now in Jaffa.
No summary available.
Craniological part of Novara voyage report is done.
Expresses his satisfaction at CD’s election as a Foreign Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences, Vienna.
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.
No summary available.
[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.
Thanks JVC for corrections for Descent. Index, which is too full, was hurried at the end.
Explains condor’s mode of flight.
No summary available.
Thanks AN for facts and corrections [for Descent].
The case of the gull must come out [Descent 2: 108 n. 9]. "Oh Lord, how difficult accuracy is!"
Retention of horns by female deer with fawn [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 503].
On photographic illustrations [for Expression].
Estimates 7s 6d price for a cheap edition of Origin [6th].