H. W. Bates’s paper; CD will review it. ["Mimetic butterflies" (1863), Collected papers 2: 87–92.]
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H. W. Bates’s paper; CD will review it. ["Mimetic butterflies" (1863), Collected papers 2: 87–92.]
Praises JL’s article ["North American archaeology", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 1–26]
and Hugh Falconer on the American fossil elephant [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 43–114].
CD’s comments on JL’s paper [first part of "On the development of Chloëon dimidiatum", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1863): 61–78].
JL’s review of Lyell’s Antiquity of man (1863) [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 211–19].
Owen’s review of W. B. Carpenter in Athenæum [28 Mar 1863, pp. 417–19].
JL’s review of Huxley ["Lectures to working men", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864)].
About buying shares.
The Copley medal. Sabine’s Presidential Address and Huxley’s response.
JL’s book [Prehistoric times (1865)] is "most original".
Wishes him success in politics.
Has read abstract of JL’s paper ["On the present state of archaeological science", Athenæum 21 July 1866, pp. 79–82] and praises it.
Asks JL to look up a paper by Thomas Hincks on Polyzoa or Bryozoa [Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 2d ser. 1 (1861): 278–81].
Encloses note of introduction to Murray.
Close inbreeding and factors acting against it.
Returns Anthropological Review.
Asks to borrow Desmarest on Crustacea [Considérations générales sur la classe des crustacés (1825)].
Has been reading JL’s address to the Entomological Society [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 3d. ser. 5 (1865–7): cxiii–cxxxi].
Would like to hear JL’s conclusion for or against Pangenesis.
Has been looking at the school accounts. Has any interest been paid to S. J. O’H. Horsman this year? CD will keep accounts temporarily; he has not yet received from Horsman the balance in hand from last year.
Asks whether JL would be prepared to sign a petition on behalf of Miss Eliza Meteyard who is seeking a civil list pension.
Sexual differences in Labidocera darwinii, in Entomostraca, and Myriapoda.
Congratulations [on election to Parliament]; hopes science will not suffer because of politics.
Previously wrote inquiring about savages and suicide, but JL need not hurry to answer.
CD would like questions on consanguineous marriages inserted in the Census to ascertain effects, if any, on fertility.
Thanks JL for his book [Origin of civilization (1870)], which he has read with "extreme interest". Wishes JL had published four or five months earlier as CD would have "so profited & saved so much work". CD will have to modify some of what he has written [in Descent]. Sees they differ a good deal about moral sense "but hardly two men ever do agree on this perplexing subject".
JL’s note of the 16th [see 7277] about the Census arrived too late for CD to answer.
All the inhabitants of Down hope JL will endeavour to induce the Post Office to improve the telegraph service.