Response to ARW’s MS on geological time ["The measurement of geological time", Nature 1 (1870): 399–401, 452–5].
Groans over [what is said about] man.
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Response to ARW’s MS on geological time ["The measurement of geological time", Nature 1 (1870): 399–401, 452–5].
Groans over [what is said about] man.
Sends MS [of chs. 3 and 4, "Comparison of the mental powers of man and the lower animals", Descent] to HED for her criticism. CD fears parts are too much like a sermon; "who wd ever have thought I shd turn parson?"
Thanks for a woodcut sent by ARW for Descent.
Congratulations on his removal from London,
and praise of his review of Francis Galton ["Hereditary genius", Nature 1 (1870): 501–3]. CD agrees with every word of it.
Appreciation of eulogy in preface of ARW’s book [Theory of natural selection].
Crossing experiments and self-sterility [in Eschscholzia].
Pangenesis.
Hermann Müller on insect adaptations for fertilisation of flowers.
CD working on book on man and sexual selection.
Explains why he has declined writing a review for Messrs Appleton.
Mentions passage on gestures in EBT’s Early history of mankind [1865].
Asks Tylor whether the deaf and dumb use opposite signs for objects, qualities, etc., of an opposite nature.
CD sends a "curious drawing" [missing] relating to imitation and protection.
Despite HBJ’s good aid, CD’s stomach will not permit a visit.
Mimicry in Lepidoptera.
Sexual selection.
The Franco-Prussian war.
Thanks for the information sent by WGS in his letter of 4 November 1870.
Praise for ARW’s reply [Nature 3 (1870): 49–50] to a paper by A. W. Bennett ["Natural selection from a mathematical point of view", Nature 3 (1870): 30–3] holding that mind is a leading cause of variation.
Is reading proof of his "confounded book" [Descent].
Responds to ARW’s comments on CD’s argument about protection in Descent.
Comments on St G. Mivart’s criticism [Genesis of species (1871)]. "The pendulum will now swing against us."
Appreciative response to ARW’s "grand review" of Descent in the Academy [2 (1871–2): 177–82]. Comments in detail on ARW’s criticisms.
On the flourishing sales of their respective books. Mentions reviews of Descent in Pall Mall Gazette [21 Mar 1871] and in the Spectator [11 Mar 1871, pp. 288–9; 18 Mar 1871, pp. 319–20].
Sends a small apparatus from Sarawak for getting fire.
Thanks EBT for present of Primitive culture [1871]. Feels certain he will regret not having read it before writing Descent.
Requests advice about Chauncey Wright’s article on Mivart’s Genesis of species [North Am. Rev. 113 (1871): 64–103]. CD thinks of publishing it as a pamphlet to counter impact of Mivart’s criticism of natural selection.
CD is allowing his family to decide whether Chauncey Wright’s paper on Mivart is dull.
Health and despondency.
Doubts his ability to answer Mivart successfully [in 6th ed. of Origin].
On a "remarkable" letter from Fritz Müller [see 7820] about mimicry, protection, and sexual selection.