Instances of sexual differences in viviparous fishes, suggested by reading chapters on sexual selection [in Descent] and by Mivart’s Genesis of species.
Notes on echinoderms.
Instances of sexual differences in viviparous fishes, suggested by reading chapters on sexual selection [in Descent] and by Mivart’s Genesis of species.
Notes on echinoderms.
Believes his letter of 17 Apr bears also on vol. 1 of Descent.
Ability to move ears is common in his family.
Similarity of foot of man to that of gorilla continues beyond foetal stage.
Invites CD to stay overnight if visiting the area.
Discusses homologies in various animal groups.
Comments on Mivart [Genesis of species].
Instance of a dog able to discriminate a note played out of tune. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 569.]
No summary available.
No summary available.
Comments on CVR’s book [Third annual report on the noxious, beneficial, and other insects of the State of Missouri (1871)].
Discusses mimetic insects.
No summary available.
Thanks for his election to the Austrian Imperial Academy.
Is sorry ES has suffered in health.
No summary available.
Further observations on expression of her dog.
Thanks for the fact about the dog.
Facts contradicting Wallace’s views on coloration of Lepidoptera.
Thanks VOK for sending F. Körte’s book [Die Streich-, Zug- oder Wander-Heuschrecke (1828)]. The passage CD wrote about [see 7735] must occur in the second edition. If VOK ever comes upon the 1829 edition, it would be of use to him.
Agrees that the Versailles army has been savagely brutal [in siege of Paris], but thinks the "Communists [Communards] have made themselves everlastingly infamous".
Acknowledges sum of £266 11s. 9d.
Is disappointed at high price, 7s 6d, being considered for the cheap edition of the Origin [6th ed.]. Has been told that, in Lancashire, workmen club together to buy the Origin.
Little chance that Expression will be done this autumn.
Observations on habits of caribou and deer in Newfoundland.
Suggests nightingale egg coloration evolved from white to olive for protection.
Sends answers to CD’s queries on expression.
Follows up CD’s observation of 13 May 1871, of a New Forest pony shedding its winter coat.
On Down parish matters.