Share dealings.
Share dealings.
Two letters have arrived for WED.
Joseph has had two teeth out.
Sends CD "L’applicazione della teoria Darwiniana ai fiori ed agli insetti visitatori dei fiori" [Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 2 (1870)]. Continues to support vitalism and teleology.
Gives opinion on the merits of Mr [Stephen P. J.] Eng[leheart (Darwin family doctor)]. Believes he would make an excellent county officer if elected to the district office of health.
No summary available.
No summary available.
COG-N sends, at the request of the late Lord Brougham, a copy of his work, The book of nature and the book of man [1870].
An instance of long memory in a horse.
Printed acknowledgment of the receipt of a letter.
Query [possibly for publication] on ridges and furrows in pasture-land that had been ploughed long ago. Gives directions for measuring ridges on sloping land.
Mrs. W. Vivian is visiting south of France.
No summary available.
Asks permission to send JH several articles he wrote concerning optics.
Is grateful for his comments on the pamphlet on Trade Unions. Hopes to produce some more on similar subjects.
Thanks JH for drawing of solar maculae from 1854-61. Some hesitancy about the accuracy of [Alexander?] Wilson's observations and hypotheses. Sixty people wish to travel to Spain to see eclipse of the sun.
Grateful for HM's sending J. H. Stirling's essay 'As Regards Protoplasm' (1869) to JH. T. H. Huxley overlooked allotropes of organic chemicals as possible origin of life. In this 'Biocratical state,' allotropes would not be alive, but would be 'designedly...fitted' to act as agents of vital processes under a causative power.
On the development of the mammae and the glands of the skin. R. A. v. Kölliker and Carl von Langer are the authorities [See Descent 1: 209].
Humphrey does not think more bones in female os coccyx than in male. Because of maceration it is impossible to compare male and female skeletons. Has another coach while Stuart ill.
The Zoological Garden has only one old adult male of Limulus. When there were females, eggs were never observed.
Encloses a separate letter [7071] about AD’s scheme [for a zoological station].
Suggests AD be cautious [in his work]. "Caution is almost the soul of science."
Thanks ADB for Limulus.
Does Callithrix sciureus wrinkle the skin around its eyes when it screams? Do the eyes become suffused with moisture?