Responds to request that his son [Francis] aid EBT with book. Comments on EBT’s excellence as anthropologist.
Thanks for present of Studien [zur Descendenz-Theorie, vol. 2 (1876)].
JDH prepares Anniversary Address to the Royal Society [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1876): 339–62].
Return of Challenger.
No summary available.
No summary available.
No summary available.
Reports graft-hybrids in Cytisus.
Thanks for new edition of Coral reefs [1874]
and Volcanic islands [1876].
His travels and studies confirm CD’s explanation of the banded structure of lavas.
Is satisfied with sales of his books.
Did not expect Orchids to sell more than 600 or 700 copies.
Only bad item is Expression, which astonishes him, since it sells well in Germany.
Asks size of printing of Cross and self-fertilisation; thinks 1500 would be ample.
On JG’s Great ice age.
Discusses formation of drift deposits near Southampton.
Comments on Axel Blytt [Immigration of Norwegian flora (1876)].
Has had fearful misgivings that the step-like plains of Patagonia may have been caused by changes in level of sea, not land.
Comments on book [Archibald Geikie, Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison (1875)].
Asks advice on transplanting insectivorous plants.
Asks CD’s opinion of a proposed protest [unspecified] and asks whether he will sign it.
Finds he does not have a duplicate of the Japanese natural history book. Sends other volumes of grotesque pictures.
He can show F. W. Hutton erred in calling Peripatus novae zelandiae self-fertilising; suspects J. F. Bullar has made a similar error on parasitic Isopoda. They both mistook spermatophores for testes.
No summary available.
Agrees with CD that Charles Voysey’s "Protest" would not do any good.
Has less sympathy with half-hearted sentimental school than with thorough-going orthodoxy. On theological dogmas, benevolence of the Creator.
[Encloses copy of his letter to Voysey.]
Thanks CD for [2d English edition of] Volcanic islands and South America [1876].
Is at work on Cross and self-fertilisation. Asks about some doubtful points.
Writes about the purchase of a horse.
Glaciation in the British Isles.
S. B. J. Skertchley’s researches on Palaeolithic man in England [Nature 14 (1876): 448–9].
Expresses his pleasure in reading Die Schutzmittel der Blüthen gegen unberufene Gäste (Kerner 1876)..
Realises he has made some errors in Cross and self fertilisation.
Has written of his idea [on the formation of the gravels near Southampton] to James Geikie, who thought it very feasible.
