Received JH's note. TW's wife Amelia [Herschel] and baby fared poorly in Panama and California. China better now than in 1853-65. Constitution flimsy but still vital. Describes 'Mahometan insurrection.'
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Received JH's note. TW's wife Amelia [Herschel] and baby fared poorly in Panama and California. China better now than in 1853-65. Constitution flimsy but still vital. Describes 'Mahometan insurrection.'
Encloses a copy of a letter he has written to a French geologist. In it he raises objections to evolutionary theory:
why are corals inadequately represented in the fossil record?
How can one explain the widespread appearance and then disappearance of groups like the trilobites?
If Mollusca and Articulata have a common ancestor, why are not ancient forms more akin than present ones?
Will send CD a deerhound puppy.
Reaffirms his statement that dogs in breeding form decided preferences toward each other, based on size, colour, or character.
Asks for figures of embryos by A. Ecker and T. L. W. Bischoff to copy [for Descent, ch. 1].
Comments on translation of FCD’s paper ["On the action of the eyelids", Arch. Med. 5 (1870): 20–38].
Speculates that closing eyelids may protect eyes from vibrations.
Discusses publication of Expression.
No summary available.
Reports "shindy" at Oxford over persons proposed for doctorate. Pusey assented to CD’s being "doctored" to keep out seven worse devils.
Copies of the French translation of Orchids were sent to C. V. Naudin, Quatrefages de Bréau, and Charles Martins at CD’s request and to Duchartre, Brongniart, Baillon, Lecoq, Godron, and Alphonse de Candolle on Rérolle’s initiative.
No summary available.
Comments on new edition of EH’s book [Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte, 2d ed. (1870)].
Mentions his own book [Descent].
Visit by Kölliker.
Sends drawings of the foot of chicken showing swimming membrane.
No summary available.
Publication Committee of Zoological Society has granted CD use of woodblock from the Society’s Proceedings.
Thanks JH for the drawings. Will send new solar autographs showing macula. Is working on the autographic series of the activity of the sun during its 11 year period.
Is creeping along slowly like Alcuin's snail. Curvers are very curious. Informs him where there is an account of Coca. Comments on this as a tonic.
Two, perhaps all three, doe [rabbits] are sterile after the transfusions; will try another method.
Sets a time for CD to call.
Mentions passage on gestures in EBT’s Early history of mankind [1865].
Asks Tylor whether the deaf and dumb use opposite signs for objects, qualities, etc., of an opposite nature.
Thanks for Trox beetles which have been forwarded [to London], but unfortunately CD has no microscope here. Is "in despair how to observe them … they sham dead" and are not inclined to stridulate.
Has had a visit from Alick (JH's son Alexander) and his friends. Sends her latest photograph.