Thanks for new book [Descent].
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Thanks for new book [Descent].
Thanks for Descent; will forward any information he has after he has studied it.
Instance of inequality in left and right anal appendices of caddis-fly.
A second edition [issue] of Descent may be needed in short time; preparations should be made, and corrections sent to Clowes. Wallace, Mivart, and F. P. Cobbe have been sent copies of both volumes.
Thanks CD for sending his book [Descent].
Notes on Variation and Descent.
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent.
Thanks for the gift of the book [Descent].
Thanks for copy of Descent.
Thanks CD for copy of Descent.
Notes the death of Frank Parker [CD’s nephew].
Various comments on Descent;
on suicide on Gold Coast;
on mulattoes’ not being prolific.
Applauds CD’s expression of dissent from J. S. Mill’s view of differences of mental powers of men and women [Descent 2: 326–9]. Sends some corrections.
Suggests alteration in Descent [1st ed. 7th thousand] in citing pagination of George Busk’s paper "The caves of Gibraltar" [Trans. Int. Congr. Prehist. Archaeol. 3 (1868): 106–67].
Thanks for the present of CD’s long-expected book [Descent].
Descent publication costs, "including a heavy item of £126 for corrections" have been received. JM can now offer CD 600 guineas for the edition of 2500 copies.
Has devised a respirator for firemen by moistening cotton wool with glycerine and adding charcoal. JT suggests the nose with its hairs and mucus is a respirator that would give protection against diseases caused by floating particles. The presence of hair and mucus is thus explained by CD’s theory.
Received copy of Descent.
Discusses CD’s comments on EH’s work.
Speculates about reception by press and scientists.
Remarks on sexual selection;
on human relationship to catarrhine apes.
Has rejected offer of chair at Vienna.
Compares Jena to Down.
Describes growth of his salary.
Mentions birth of Emma Haeckel.
A. M. Norman’s collection of calcareous sponges is very valuable.
Would be pleased if CD called.
Thanks for copy of Descent.
Admires natural selection.
Climbing plants has attracted attention in Germany, but most botanists are interested in cell development and similar questions.
Sends two books detailing a new medical method that will produce "a state of health & vigour on every occasion & in every instance" and is applicable to "the entire circle of animated nature" [William Hibbert, Important discovery. Hibbert’s new theory and practice of medicine (1870) and The new theory and practice of medicine (1870)]. The volumes apply to animals and man. Subsequent books will detail the method for insects and plants.
[Letter erroneously addressed to E. A. Darwin, and forwarded by EAD to CD.]
Verses on the Origin and Descent.