Criticisms and comments on JDH’s "Insular floras" in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1867): 6].
Criticisms and comments on JDH’s "Insular floras" in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1867): 6].
CD should not be discouraged by the bulk of Variation. CD’s suggestion to print technical details in small type is good.
Murray has sent MS to a "man of letters and good information" as an experiment to test its effect. Has no intention of throwing up publication.
Sends paper on new species of Bonatea, to which he has given the name Darwinii.
Has now an extensive collection of insects.
Has discovered moths whose larva cases resemble perfectly the thorns of the Acacia horrida.
Has asked for the head of a Bushman murderer. Difficult to convince authorities of interest of science.
Relieved by JM’s note and by his agreement on type size. Is alarmed by what the verdict [on Variation] of JM’s friend will be. He is not a man of science. An unscientific reader would have condemned the Origin. An eminent semi-scientific man thought the Journal of researches not worth publishing.
Advice on choosing executors, drawing will, and disposing of MB's property. Sends semiannual dividend from Drummond's.
Has given CD’s queries about expression to W. H. Stirling. Thomas Bridges, the catechist, had previously answered some questions incompletely [see 2643]; BJS forwards them [see Expression].
BJS answers CD’s query about when some calves show their adult colour.
MS essay "On esculent fruits" [apparently enclosed in a missing letter].
Responds to CD’s criticisms. JDH is sometimes confused as to what he has borrowed from CD.
Will introduce Charles Kingsley to CD.
Comments on MS on seed distribution sent by TB.
More comments on "Insular floras": community of peculiar genera in the Atlantic islands descended from European plants now extinct.
Approves of type [for Variation]. Pleased to hear from Hooker that he is not surprised that MS is big.
Thanks BJS for W. H. Stirling’s answers [to queries about expression]
and for information on cattle and breeding of dogs.
Requests information about rudimentary muscles and organs in man. Asks about marrow of os coccyx, and about testes and ovaria in early embryos of both sexes.
No summary available.
Discusses Aristotle's and Richard Whately's descriptions of the sensitivity of the eye's lateral areas. Asks JH to review cover sheet and opine whether the predictions described are miracles.
Sends copy of B.A.A.S. resolution regarding telescope in India. ES and R.S.L. colleagues agree to take no further steps in matter.
No summary available.
JL’s brother-in-law [Robert Birkbeck] would like a note of introduction to John Murray.
Encloses note of introduction to Murray.