Thanks CD for Orchids. Has written a notice for Chelmsford Chronicle.
Finds some botanical observations on inflorescences.
Requests CD’s autograph. [Translation of letter made by O. Dill, see 10871.]
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Édouard Heckel of Grenoble is translating Cross and self-fertilisation.
Expression has sold out; wants a new edition.
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Attributes the Castilian accent of speech of deaf and dumb men to imitation of their teachers’ lip movements.
Thanks CD for his advice. No doubt one may be misled by a few experiments in matters on which many forces come into play. Describes his plans to observe the flowering of 23 plants of Lychnis gilhago raised from a single capsule.
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Gives an example of atavism in American cattle.
Was CD already convinced of evolution when he published Journal of researches?
Photograph album will be late coming.
Evolutionary magazine to appear in March under title of Kosmos.
Darwin consents to his correspondence with Pieter Harting being published in Nature.
Thanks for Cross and self-fertilisation.
His work on poppy varieties confirms increased vigour with crossing.
JS is carrying out opium poppy experiments CD suggested. He is busy with opium duties. Observing many fields of poppies, day and night, JS finds them remarkably free of insects. Believes they are wind-pollinated and that varieties have prepotent pollen since he has shown they do not cross naturally.
Plans to send a paper on Cyclosis to Linnean Society.
Newspaper cutting of two side-by-side engravings of Lady Smith at the ages of 16 or 17 and 94 [pencil annotations list the former age as 25 and latter as 100 and that it was taken from the "Graphic, Feb. 24 1877"]
Thanks OZ for a "magnificent Album".
On Beagle voyage CD believed in permanence of species. Had occasional vague doubts. In autumn of 1836 saw how many facts indicated common descent of species. In 1837 opened notebook to record facts.
Comments on CD’s Cross and self-fertilisation: its usefulness to florists, and his solution of a long standing puzzle in showing the increase of monstrosities in self-fertilised plants.
His specimen catalogue has not been returned from Cambridge museum. If not lost, will answer query.
CD has harangued the Down Friendly Club. Does not think it will dissolve.
Accedes to her [unspecified] request.
Wants to know how to obtain The thoughts of Marcus Aurelius, mentioned in Descent [1: 106].