Sends list of bills.
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Sends list of bills.
Has no chance of paying his debts, and asks for money.
Has just heard that 1st volume of Dutch edition [of Descent] has been announced for 10 December. Was CD aware that the Dutch intended to publish vol. 1 by itself?
Sends a cheque to clear FD’s debts. Hopes he will be more careful in the future.
Is sending by this post three sheets and will send another tomorrow thus almost completing the part on birds. His congratulations and thanks for PLS’s labours with them.
Believes AG’s cases of incipient dimorphism are due to mere variability. Has found examples in Nolana and Amsinckia; believes such variation is the basis for the development of dimorphism. Was unaware of variations in Phlox.
Sensitivity of Drosera and Dionaea.
Progress on his Russian translation of Descent.
Alexander Kovalevsky is at Tor in Sinai, where C. G. Ehrenberg was in 1827.
Has CD seen Ernst Haeckel’s new book [Biologische Studien (1870–7)]?
Forgot to send books.
Saw Miss [Henrietta] Darwin; chastised her for being out when book [Descent] has not yet appeared.
CD elected Associate Member of the Royal Belgian Academy.
Thanks Academy for his election as Associate Member.
CD has been nominated as a Membre Associé of the Belgian Royal Academy.
Discusses crustacean embryology; EvB is at variance with Dohrn.
Thanks WO for valuable letter. Feels he need not trouble any more about platysma. If WO ever sees someone suffering great fear, CD asks him to observe the neck.
Hopes to visit WO when next in London.
Congratulations on Leonard Darwin’s success at Woolwich Academy.
Mentions the current activities of his own sons and of some old acquaintances.
Would be pleased to be visited by CD.
J. Wyman will make observations on black pigs and white pigs in Florida.
Has received a letter, and two packets of securities.
Comments on George’s escape.
Congratulates CD on his election to L’Académie Royale de Belgique.
Thanks LGK for the part he played in getting CD elected as an Associate [of Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences].
CD is correct; his notes are on the Jollof, not the Tollof, tribe.
Thanks BJS for his congratulations [on Leonard Darwin’s success].
CD is "as usual, always ailing and grumbling".
Expects his new book [Descent] to "disgust you & many others".
Confirms number of shares.
Reports on conversation with Henry Holland.