Thanks for contribution to fund for his brother’s widow.
Thanks for contribution to fund for his brother’s widow.
Thanks CD for thinking of his speculation.
Has made a note of the paper mentioned by CD.
Discusses WC's ideas on the causes of oceanic circulation. Notes that wind currents are easier to study than water currents. Glad WC got his specimens of Mediterranean water.
Movement of hair; action of occipito-frontalis muscle.
Obliged for letter about dog.
Comments on HH’s article ["Zur Geschlechtsbestimmung", Bot. Ztg. 29 (1871): 81–9, 97–109].
Has despatched a letter on a subject of concern to JH to the editor of the Saturday News, but now feels it is too feeble. Is mostly feeling too ill to write or think for long.
Anecdote of bear reasoning [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 76].
Similarity of forms of ornamentation and implements in widely separate races and ages [Descent 1: 233].
"If you feel astonished at my bringing man & brutes so near together in their whole nature (though with a wide hiatus) I feel still more astonished, as I believe, at your judgment on this head. I much wish you had enlarged your concluding sentence a little so as to say whether you consider the ordinary mental faculties so distinct, or whether you confine the enormous difference to spiritual powers including the moral sense.––"
Encloses copy of JH's letter to R.A.S. [see JH's 1864-6-29] that accompanied JH's submission of W. L. Newman's tables for determining radii of aplanatic lenses. Suspects that there was more than one volume of tables.
Expressions in attitudes of prayer and adoration.
Replies to CD’s letter;
inquires about CD’s intended terms for Italian translator of Descent; hopes to offer best terms herself.
On ratios of the sexes in insects, and other facts relating to sexual selection.
Detailed questions about illustrations for [forthcoming] Expression.
Asks whether Times review has hurt sales of Descent.
The type on specimen page of Origin [6th ed.] seems clear, but lines are close. The cost is the great point for a wide circulation.
On reception of Descent in Edinburgh.
Anecdote about a dog helping another by separating combatants.
Please thank Mr Jackson for facts about shrugging, but case not distinct enough. Gestures associated with laughter. Platysma.
Case of the reasoning bear is analogous to the elephant blowing with trunk to bring object within reach.
Gives permission for the photographer to come to Down, but states that O. J. Rejlander has recently taken several photographs of him which would be available to purchasers.
Feels their conflict lies in the field of philosophy rather than in that of physical science. Regrets that they differ so widely.
Asks JM to lend him his copy of 1st edition (1806) of Charles Bell’s Anatomy of expression.
JM should tell him when he wants new cheap edition of Origin, so he can arrange his plans and time.
In Nov. 1864, R.A.S. council instructed secretary Charles Pritchard to write to JH regarding tables by late [W. L.] Newman of York, but JW finds no evidence that Pritchard complied. Cannot find Newman's tables. Pritchard may have taken them.