Many thanks for the book [Variation].
Many thanks for the book [Variation].
Discusses [Fritz?] Müller’s confusion about ova and pseudova; JL’s Daphnia paper [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 79–100; see 1979] first demonstrated their structural identity.
Points out a misleading statement in Variation.
Found [Variation] full of interest. Has not yet made up his mind about Pangenesis; wants to hear what can be said against it.
JL’s Royal Institution lectures.
Would like to borrow CD’s carriage on polling day.
Arrangements for polling.
Further arrangements for polling. Everything looks well. [Ellen Lubbock notes, "he is too sanguine – ".]
JL’s failure to be elected to Parliament.
Thanks for the pamphlets; JL’s paper, "Primitive condition of man" [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 6 (1868): 328].
Down School funds.
Down School funds.
Asks for reference to Louis Agassiz’s views on embryos indicating ancestral structures.
Has been asked by Henry Powell [new vicar of Down] for help to build a house at Down; asks for CD’s advice.
On the antennae of Labidocera.
Size of sexes in Entomostraca.
Visiting arrangements.
Is glad CD likes the new edition [of Prehistoric times].
Has been lecturing in Scotland.
Suicide is rare among savages [see Descent 1: 94].
The Census Bill is down on the paper for tomorrow; will CD restate how he wants to put the question [on cousin marriages]?
Brought forward the "cousin question" in the House; read most of CD’s letter to the House.
Some good men spoke for CD’s amendment, but in vain.