Dutch translation [of Descent].
Notes about reversion.
Hermaphroditism in fishes.
Polydactylism.
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Dutch translation [of Descent].
Notes about reversion.
Hermaphroditism in fishes.
Polydactylism.
Thanks for Descent.
He is "driven" from his post.
He has homologised the face muscles of cetaceans and man. Although the former do not show expression, the nose and upper lip muscles are highly developed.
On "moral sense" in Descent.
Comments on points made in Hensleigh Wedgwood’s letter [7470] on moral sense in Descent.
Agrees that social instinct or love for fellows is the beginning of moral feeling. Responds to CD’s letter [7537].
Rereading Journal of researches, particularly on Buenos Aires and varieties of cattle observed there [pp. 145–6]. Reports a case of a cow in which the characters of the niata and two other breeds were combined.
On private property, with regard to tools and arms; comments on Maine’s book and the history of law regarding property.
French translation of Descent all but complete.
Hopes translation of Origin will soon be finished.
Thanks CD for copy of Descent; wishes it had appeared earlier so that he could have made use of the facts in his Principles of psychology [2d ed. (1870–2)].
Thanks for letter and invitation to come to Down.
Sorry about CD’s bad health; Brazilian climate has improved his own.
Sorry to hear Miss Butler is dead.
Praise for gentle but resolute tone of Descent.
Very glad about profits of book. Glad CD flummoxed Mivart.
Recommends a photographer to CD for Expression.
Reports case of apparent consciousness of complicity in an elephant.
Believes that Darwinism is applicable to Greek language.
Thanks for copy of Descent. Dining with Vernon Lushington, who is jubilant over the book.
Referring to CD’s passage on monkeys’ acquiring taste for tea, coffee, and tobacco, AN tells of three monkeys he kept in Australia that developed strong taste for rum and smoking tobacco without being taught in any way [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 7 n.].
Thanks for Descent.
Reveals that it is his own family that has the movable scalp.
The Franco-Prussian war has held up the publication of the 17th and last volume of the Prodromus.
Has seen Ogle. His subject [olfactory nerve tissue and absorption of odours] has often occupied JT’s attention.
Reminds CD of earlier promise to permit extracts of Descent to be translated and published in EA’s Revue Scientifique once entire work is printed. Book appeared weeks ago, so EA again requests permission. Revue has been appearing irregularly owing to war with Germans.
JM will print 2000 more copies of Descent as a second edition [issue]. Profits should be large as expenses are small.