Discusses his account.
Sends addresses [for subscribers to Zoology].
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Discusses his account.
Sends addresses [for subscribers to Zoology].
Discusses printing of a plate [for South America (1846)].
AH may keep CD’s MS as long as he likes.
Comments on various cirripede species. "I mean now to continue at Systematic Part till I have finished."
Much interested in MTM’s lecture at Royal Institution ["On the relation between the abnormal and normal formations in plants", Notes Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1860): 223–7].
Asks for information about crossing of varieties of peas. Describes his own experimental results: "the offspring out of the same pod, instead of being intermediate, was very nearly like the two pure parents; yet in one, there was a trace of the cross & the next generation showed still more plainly their mongrel origins".
Sends instructions to Messrs Clowes concerning typesetting and printing of proof-sheets of Descent.
Orders nitrate of ammonia for experiment on plants.
Are measuring glasses accurate?
Has read correspondent’s work. Glad he is not shocked at belief that man is descendant of lower form. An unusual attitude for a Frenchman.
Fears they differ greatly on origins of moral sense.
Comments on WHL’s paper ["Pontederia cordata", Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 6 (1875–9): 62–3]. Cites Fritz Müller’s conclusion that plant is trimorphic. Has WHL made further observations?
Cannot answer questions on origin of instinct, sociology, etc. Suggests references in Origin and Descent.
Discusses allegation [about Erasmus Darwin] made by Samuel Butler. Will value LS’s verdict highly.