Would like recipient to ask inmates whether they are offspring of cousin marriages.
Would like recipient to ask inmates whether they are offspring of cousin marriages.
Is glad to hear of new German edition of Descent, but owing to his extensive revisions, corrected sheets will not be ready for about three months.
Is working on a new edition of Coral reefs, which he thinks would sell in Germany.
Would like to hear "out of curiosity & vanity" how many copies of his books have been sold in Germany.
Asks for information about the title and date of Semper’s essay disputing CD’s theory of coral reefs.
No summary available.
Has ordered James Clerk Maxwell’s book [On the stability of the motion of Saturn’s rings (1859)] as a present for Sofya Kovalevsky.
Has grown haricots in England following CD’s suggestion in the Origin that this had never been done.
Wishes to see CD.
Discusses coral reefs
and encloses a copy of his "Reisebericht" [Z. Wiss. Zool. 13 (1863): 538–70], as requested by CD.
No summary available.
Sends paper ["Strictures on Darwinism, pt 2", J. Anthropol. Inst. 3 (1874): 208–28].
Refers to articles in the Art Journal on changes in English countenance since the Tudor period.
Reports to CD on a spiritualist séance attended by himself (incognito) and G. H. Darwin.
On obtaining Clerk Maxwell’s memoir on Saturn for his wife, Sofya.
CD elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [See 9305.]
Gives his and CD’s thanks for information on consanguinity among parents of asylum inmates.
No summary available.
On proportion of sexes in births of cattle; variations in families. Encloses a letter from J. G. Grove on proportions of sexes in animals.
The limitation of inbreeding.
No summary available.
Discusses THH’s account of the séance. CD convinced all are fraudulent.
Returns and sends comments on Clarke Hawkshaw’s essay ‘The persistence of forms of life in the depths of the sea’.
No summary available.
Has finished the index [for Descent, 2d ed.].