Gives Carl Claus’s identifications of the organisms sent by CD.
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Gives Carl Claus’s identifications of the organisms sent by CD.
Suggests advantage to students of adding coloured drawings of the coral-producing zoophytes in next edition of Coral reefs.
Thanks for his suggestion about drawings for future edition [of Coral reefs].
Has read RLT’s essay [The pathology and treatment of diseases of the ovaries (1874)] with interest. His facts about tumours seem to CD "highly favourable to some such notion as Pangenesis".
Thanks for reference concerning regeneration of human fingers and toes.
Sends lecture on language.
Asks for information about animal communication by vocal sounds.
He will write to Portugal for the insect-capturing Araujia.
Discusses his work [Flora fossilis Arctica, vol. 4, pt 1 (1876)].
Sends copy of [Fossile Pflanzen von Sumatra (1874)]. Comments on climate in Tertiary period, especially on Sumatra.
Comments on theory of Thomas Belt concerning climatic change in ice age.
Sends CD a cheque for 68 guineas – his two-thirds share of profit on sale of 2000 copies of 2d edition of Descent.
On nesting habits of pied and spotted flycatchers.
JPT disagrees with CD’s comment in Descent.
Marriages of first cousins produce congenital deaf-mutism.
Informing CD (and 20 others) of the award of an honorary degree by Leiden University.
Would be glad to make RLT’s acquaintance, but CD’s health would make RLT’s visit to Down unprofitable. Suggests a meeting in London at end of month.
TB, who sailed with CD [as a Royal Marine] in the Beagle, asks for CD’s portrait. Recalls some events they shared.
Thanks for copy of lecture (Rusden 1874: Selection, natural and artificial, a lecture delivered in the Wangaratta Athenaeum by Mr. H. K. Rusden on Monday, October 26th, 1874) and essay (Rusden 1872: The treatment of criminals in relation to science, an essay read before the Royal Society of Victoria).
Comments on the essay.
Is preparing a paper on the umbilical cord ["On the anatomy of the umbilical cord", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 23 (1875): 498–501; 24 (1876): 417–40] of which he sends a preliminary note [missing]. Believes spiral growth of the umbilical cord is important evidence of the descent of man; speculates on spiral growth in general.
Has at last finished Insectivorous plants
and is rewriting Climbing plants.
W. W. Ouless has finished his picture of CD for Academy.
Seems to be in error about the nests of the two flycatchers.
Has just come to London. Invites TB to luncheon.