Discusses function of the eyebrows in protecting the eyes from sweat.
Mentions notices in the Nation.
Discusses function of the eyebrows in protecting the eyes from sweat.
Mentions notices in the Nation.
Is glad CD is pleased with his book [Cave hunting (1874)].
Relationship between language and race. The Basques.
Thanks CD for Descent
and for his praise of Cosmic philosophy [1874].
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Reports an Araujia in Portugal that captures various insects on the horns of its stigma. Relates this to another asclepiad, Apocynum, which also captures insects. Is this "insectivory" or insect fertilisation?
Uses of tails of mice. Functions of tails generally.
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No action on assistance yet, but has had a private note from Disraeli asking whether Thiselton-Dyer is his recommendation.
Sends a short essay [The pathology and treatment of diseases of the ovaries (1874)] on which he would welcome CD’s opinion. Believes problems of pathology can be attacked by regarding them from "Darwinian" point of view.
A curious alteration in the reprint of Variation.
Gives Carl Claus’s identifications of the organisms sent by CD.
Suggests advantage to students of adding coloured drawings of the coral-producing zoophytes in next edition of Coral reefs.
Thanks for his suggestion about drawings for future edition [of Coral reefs].
Has read RLT’s essay [The pathology and treatment of diseases of the ovaries (1874)] with interest. His facts about tumours seem to CD "highly favourable to some such notion as Pangenesis".
Thanks for reference concerning regeneration of human fingers and toes.
Sends lecture on language.
Asks for information about animal communication by vocal sounds.
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He will write to Portugal for the insect-capturing Araujia.
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