Has autographs showing the spots' motion. Will send them soon. Expresses regret at the death of W. R. Dawes. Refers to recent article on the optician George Merz.
No summary available.
Arrangements to dine at JDH’s club.
Sends sheets with alterations to be made [in Russian translation of Variation]. VOK should consider adding to the title-page that CD is a Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences (St Petersburg).
Payment of 400 guineas [Variation royalties] delights CD.
Sends copy of a paper on his flock of sheep, which confirms much of what CD says in Variation,
together with a note he made of an instance of cattle "determining the existence" of a tree [cf. Origin, ch. 3].
Proportions of sexes of the silkworm are about equal, but knows of no statistics.
Cannot share his view of origin of species.
Thanks WS for information about moss roses and the Le Compte family.
Mentions WS’s recent papers on inheritance [Brit. & Foreign Med.-Chirurg. Rev. (1867)].
Acknowledges his election as a Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg.
Does not think females give preference to any males. Coloration, pugnacity; cases of use of colour in struggle for existence. [see Descent 1: 395.]
Would like to meet with WBT while in London.
Replies to CD on salmon: the pugnacity of males and the proportions of sexes. [see Descent 1: 308, 2: 3.]
Crying in babies.
Visiting W. D. Fox.
Sends specimen of Cardamine pratensis,
and an account of a striped horse.
Discusses Pangenesis.
Has returned to religion and has been reflecting on God’s mercies, one of which CD should remember from about 1828 at Bodnant.
Difficulty understanding notation used in [FJ]'s pamphlet on musical scales. JH's comments on [FJ]'s formulas and conclusions.
No summary available.
First volume of Variation in French has been printed. Second volume has been translated. CD’s additions to chapter 11 arrived in time.
JM sends note for £420.
Asks CD to use his good offices on behalf of William Clowes’s son who is up for election to Athenaeum.
Acknowledges receipt of bill for £420.
Will try to attend Athenaeum meeting to help elect Clowes’s son.
Wishes he had known of the views of Hippocrates, which are almost identical to his Pangenesis hypothesis. CD advances it as provisional, but secretly expects some such view will have to be admitted.