Discusses coral reefs
and encloses a copy of his "Reisebericht" [Z. Wiss. Zool. 13 (1863): 538–70], as requested by CD.
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Discusses coral reefs
and encloses a copy of his "Reisebericht" [Z. Wiss. Zool. 13 (1863): 538–70], as requested by CD.
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.
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.
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’.
Has finished the index [for Descent, 2d ed.].