Regrets that he is too busy getting his book [Variation] ready for publication to contribute an article to Fraser’s Magazine.
Regrets that he is too busy getting his book [Variation] ready for publication to contribute an article to Fraser’s Magazine.
No summary available.
Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)].
Cites his own views on diversity of structure and beauty.
Encloses letter from Wallace. Sexual selection: evidence advanced by Wallace.
Discusses correlation of growth.
Comments on article in the North British Review [by Fleeming Jenkin].
Discusses the evidence from physics on the age of the earth.
[Four pages of the final letter are missing, but the draft is complete.]
He had no idea that the double function of an excretory passage had played a part in the history of religion.
Discusses the reception of CD’s views at Cambridge and elsewhere.
Variation delayed by the index, but will appear at the end of the year.