Petition to protect gigantic tortoises on the Mascarene.
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Petition to protect gigantic tortoises on the Mascarene.
Sends old Japanese picture suggesting evolution, found by Charles Longfellow.
Is pleased to hear CD attended a séance [18 Jan 1874]; asks for his views about communication among spirits.
Is willing to sell the land CD wants for £300.
Thanks for JL’s willingness to sell land.
Regrets that a cut [for Descent] does not do justice to TWW’s original drawing and if it cannot be improved then CD will have to omit it. [Refers to fig. 60 in Descent (1874).]
Has finished corrections for 2d edition of Descent – "as hard work as I have ever had in my life". Estimates it is 40 pages longer than 1st edition.
Wants some plants for observation and for experimentation on their powers of movement.
Asks WTT-D to make observations on plants with sensitive stamens or pistil.
Subscribes to a reprint of Pieter Boddaert’s Table des planches enluminéez d’histoire naturelle [check ‘éez’!?] [1874].
Hopes to visit CD during a stay in London.
Many thanks for Boddaert [see 9389].
His gratitude for CD’s gift. An account of his difficulties with the Zoological Station and his health.
F. M. Balfour has told him that CD would like to see the question of complemental males in cirripedes studied again. AD would like to enter the field and to study the whole morphological development of cirripedes.
Describes the interest in embryological work in Russia and Germany.
Comments on J. T. Moggridge’s article on the fertilisation of Fumaria capreolata [Nature 9 (1874): 423].
Just back from Gold Coast.
Would like to become a member of the Royal Institution.
Is organising an appeal for the Naples Zoological Station.
C. V. Riley’s case of Pronuba moth and the fertilisation of Yucca, is the most wonderful case of fertilisation ever published [Am. Nat. 7 (1873): 619–23].
Circular requesting recipients to sign an enclosed [missing] statement [relating to appeal for Naples Zoological Station] if they approve of it.
Discusses illustrations for 2d edition of Descent.
"My nephew [Henry Parker] got into the Athenaeum with splendid success."
Encloses a statement and circular he has been asked to send to JL.
Has just read Journal of researches and has been charmed out of his anti-Darwinian prejudice.
Observations on Coronilla.