Sends dirt residue of chalk samples for David Forbes to examine.
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Sends dirt residue of chalk samples for David Forbes to examine.
Response to 6th ed. of Origin. CD’s answer to Mivart on initial stages of modifications is complete; the "eye and ear objection" is not handled so satisfactorily.
A. S. Packard would like to visit CD to pay his respects.
P.S. Information on earthworm activity on chalk downs, including two rough sketches for CD.
Down parish and family matters.
JM arranges to pay CD for the latest issue of Descent.
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.
Has failed to discover the signs of earthworm activity that CD described.
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.
Will see CD tomorrow.
CD insists too strongly, in Descent, on man’s origin from a simian ancestor, rather than some other primate.
Discusses problems of obtaining money for the alteration of Down church.
Describes habits of worms.
Discusses Leersia experiments.
A. G. Butler has named the specimens sent by CD with Fritz Müller’s letter.
Sends several facts relating to sexual selection, mimicry, and hybrids.
Discusses the possibility that mimicked and mimicking forms have descended from originally allied forms and have diverged in structure but not in appearance.
CD is urged to increase to 20 his shares in the Artizans, Labourers & General Dwellings Co. Ltd. Many prominent people have done so.
On colours and breeding of rabbits.
Endorses revised statement about Butler’s odd hereditary habit;
describes a séance at William Crookes’s.
Data relating to experiments; shrinkage of earth on drying.