Offers to send German editions of his works when he return home.
Offers to send German editions of his works when he return home.
Wishes to use some of Fritz Müller’s observations in his paper on mimicry.
CD’s reply and Huxley’s article ["Mr Darwin’s critics", Contemp. Rev. 18 (1871): 443–76] have answered all of Mivart’s objections to natural selection as applied to man.
Has just finished his work [? The martyrdom of man (1872)]. The new points are: (1) Negroes have whiskers; (2) their music is sometimes agreeable; (3) the Kaffirs are Negroes.
Plans for visit to CD.
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Has failed to discover the signs of earthworm activity that CD described.
Acknowledges payment from sale of his books.
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On how various human emigrations have supported the work of natural selection.
Defends the view that soil and air account for taller stature of westerners in U. S.
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Will see CD tomorrow.
CD insists too strongly, in Descent, on man’s origin from a simian ancestor, rather than some other primate.
Has received GCW’s negative from the Heliotype Co. Thanks him for the beautiful work of art which, however, will make others on the same plate look ugly. [See Expression, pl. III, fig. 2.]
Discusses problems of obtaining money for the alteration of Down church.
Describes habits of worms.
Discusses Leersia experiments.
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CD has lost his reference to cross between gold and silver pheasants.
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