Notes on the taxonomy of Primula.
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Notes on the taxonomy of Primula.
Answers for father, who is ill, on difference between manes of stallions and mares.
Suggests, if further notice is to be taken of Variation, that the reviewer grapple with the subject of Pangenesis. Thanks him for his fair and friendly spirit.
Thanks CD for the gift of his new work [Variation].
Questions arising in German translation of Variation; its sales prospects. CD from the first has said it was very doubtful that the book was worth translating.
Statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin.
Amazed that Hugo von Mohl and E. M. Fries are not foreign members of Royal Society; Thomson going over the whole matter.
Candolle’s contribution to botany.
Lubbock shocked about Wollaston.
CD’s answer to Greg was capital.
Comments on Variation.
Charles Murchison’s work on Falconer’s Memoirs [Palaeontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer (1868)] and JDH on Falconer.
Thanks WL for sending congratulations [on George Darwin’s attaining Second Wrangler].
Relays news about Sedgwick’s condition.
Has finished a large book on variation.
His Majesty the King of Prussia has conferred upon CD the Order, Pour le Mérite, for Sciences and Arts.
Congratulates [G. H. Darwin] on being Second Wrangler.
Thanks CD for Variation.
Comments on Wollaston’s troubles
and his book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].
Mohl’s claim to foreign membership in Royal Society very strong.
Has been in despair about Variation – not worth a fifth part of the labour it cost him.
Is reading F. A. W. Miquel’s Flora du Japon [Prolusio florae Japonicae (1866–7)]; wonders whether A. Murray could be correct in his view that an area of the sea prevented Asiatico-Japan flora colonising western N. America.
Comments on A. Murray’s book [Geographical distribution of mammals (1866)].
Recommends J. Scott’s paper on crossing varieties of Verbascum.
Discussion of the pig in light of CD’s Variation.
Work of Hermann von Nathusius [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].
Sends some Australian boiled beef for CD to sample.
Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge.
Forwards a letter from John Horner of Market Drayton, Shropshire, concerning £2000 he considers due to him from CD under the terms of the will of Sarah Bayley.
Thanks for congratulations on Francis Darwin’s success in the tripos examinations at the university of Cambridge.
The king of Prussia has awarded him the order Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste.
Will assume trusteeship if he is named in the document. Discusses trying to find Neptune with his telescope.
Describes his lectures on CD’s theory.
Thanks CD for copy of Variation. Comments on book.
Describes work of two protégés in Jena: Nicolas von Miklucho[-Maclay] and Anton Dohrn.
His cousin, Wilhelm Bleek, is sending an article about the origin of language.
Asks to keep book a few months longer but will return it if CD needs it [Webb and Berthelot, Histoire naturelle des Îles Canaries, vol. 3, pt 1: Géographie botanique (1840)].
Describes research on Siphonophora.
Describes life in Jena. Mentions alpine accident during wedding trip.
Discusses the origin and characters of sheep breeds, particularly the merino.
Reports observations on reversion to wild type in canary mules
and lists some animals that show a unique development restricted to one side of their bodies.
Forwards a letter from Secretary of Yorkshire Philosophical Society. Hopes CD will honour them by accepting.
Has heard nothing of Variation.