Has frequently defended evolution and natural selection among his clergy brethren.
Now elicits CD’s views on chance.
Has frequently defended evolution and natural selection among his clergy brethren.
Now elicits CD’s views on chance.
Sends corrections for new French edition of Origin.
No summary available.
Gives publication date for J. C. Lavater, L’Art de connaître les hommes, 1806–9, edited by J. L. Moreau. The first four volumes appeared in 1806.
Sends a copy of Orchids for his wife, T. M. Story-Maskelyne, and a few other items she may wish to have.
Climbing Plants may be purchased at Williams and Norgate; he has no clean copies.
Refers GH to vol. 2, p. 431 of Variation for the "perplexed conclusion" at which CD has arrived on variation and design. Has nothing to add to this statement.
Asks for Stainton's opinion of J. Hübner's classification in his Verzeichniß bekannter Schmetterlinge.
No summary available.
No summary available.
Thanks CD for papers he sent his wife. They will help her pass her time as an invalid.
Reply to CD’s letter of 5 Apr 1871 [7659], in which he asked HA for further details on when and how platysma myoides contracts.
Replies to CD’s questions about sources on leaf arrangement.
Gives news of speech and paper about CD.
Announces that the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris has elected CD a Foreign Associate.
No summary available.
No summary available.
Requests that PB express his thanks to the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris for the honour conferred upon him [see 8102].
Discusses movement of ears and contraction of the platysma.
Discusses phyllotaxy, citing work of Carl Nägeli and Chauncey Wright.
Maoris of New Zealand admire beards, contrary to statement in Descent [2: 349].
Asks for exact translations of J. Hübner's generic characters in his Verzeichniß bekannter Schmetterlinge.
JDH informs Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff that he is sending Cosmo Melville a report on the pamphlet relating to an injured poppy crop. JDH thinks the pamphlet is unfairly harsh toward Bihar Opium agents & should not have been published by the Government. He believes his report is to be sent to India so asks Grant Duff to read over it & get it approved by 'his Grace'.
Thanks for letter and reference to Nägeli’s observations on leaf arrangement in the bud.