Will send CD’s query to eight or ten people.
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Will send CD’s query to eight or ten people.
George brought a plant from Cambridge, which he is keeping for CD.
Thanks CD for £10 to help with his law case.
The Bishop of Falkland [Waite Hockin Stirling] is coming to visit BJS, who will question him for CD.
Discusses politics; regrets they have been badly beaten by the Tory candidate.
Comments on G. H. Lewes’s book [The life and works of Goethe (1855)].
Matters of etiquette concerning his certificate for the Royal Society.
Sends about 15 sheets on instinct from his book [A philosophical treatise on the nature and constitution of man (1876)] for CD’s comments.
Asks CD if he can reconcile a passage in Mark Hopkins’ Outline study of man [1873] with the theory of development.
Prefaces Fritz Müller’s observations on termites and stingless bees [see 9281].
Birthday greetings.
Asks AG to sign an enclosure [see 9291].
Has read GH’s proofs and, although not entirely in agreement, has no criticisms worth sending.
On the decline of population of the Hawaiian Islands, before advent of Europeans; infanticide, polyandry.
Thanks for birthday greetings.
Comments on work at Naples Zoological Station. F. M. Balfour to visit Naples. Would like to send third son [Francis Darwin] to learn art of observing marine animals.
Health indifferent.
Has sent FM’s letter on termites to Nature ["Habits of various insects", Nature 10 (1874): 102–3].
Would be interested in observations on the stingless bees of Brazil.
On the declining population of the Hawaiian Islands [see Descent (1875), pp. 186–7, 187–8 n. 43].
Signs Robert Swinhoe’s certificate [for the Royal Society] with pleasure.
Statistics showing rate of decline of population in Sandwich Islands, 1832–72.
Feels CD’s and Fritz Müller’s judgments on his "Anwendung" essay [see 8313] are of highest value. Mentions some of FM’s comments.
Looks forward to second English edition of Descent.
Inherited dental abnormalities in man. [Enclosed are proofs of pp. 113–16 from J. Tomes, A system of dental surgery, 2d ed. (1873).]