Is much obliged for information [about rabbits?].
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Is much obliged for information [about rabbits?].
Reports safe arrival of rabbits.
His rabbits have lost their patches and are grey.
Has FG seen William Crookes [spiritualist]?
Comments on FG’s description of a séance at the house of William Crookes.
Will use FG’s words about [H. M. Butler’s] hereditary habit [in Expression, p. 33 n. 8].
Encourages FG to carry out investigation [of spiritualism]. However, his own health is too uncertain to accept Daniel Dunglas Home’s offer. Discusses possibility of reproducing Crookes’s apparatus for sale.
Agrees to care for FG’s rabbits and will breed from them.
Plans to go to Southampton for ten days.
George Snow, the carrier, now leaves Nag’s Head on Thursday mornings.
Alteration in the arrangements for the carrier to collect the rabbit from FG and bring it to Down.
The carrier will call at University College on Thursday 15 August.
Rabbits’ coats true in character. If the next ones are true, it is superfluous to keep trying.
Does not know why crying children rub eyes with knuckles.
Mentions FG’s article on prayer ["Statistical inquiries into the efficacy of prayer", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 12 (1872): 125–35].
F. M. Balfour wants to experiment on Pangenesis. Asks FG to recommend coloured rabbits that breed true.
Comments on FG’s article ["Hereditary improvement", Fraser’s Mag. 87 (1873): 116–30]. Finds it "the sole feasible, yet I fear utopian, plan of procedure in improving the human race".
Thanks for rabbits for Balfour.
Mentions reading W. R. Greg’s Enigmas [of life (1872)].
Comments about questionnaire CD completed for FG [for Galton’s English men of science (1874)].
Describes his early interest in collecting and his education.
Asks about determining the mean heights of two groups of men.
Reports an incident of his "hereditary" habit of dozing, head in hand, such that he scratches his nose.
Invites FG to visit.
Agrees to write to William Ogle [about twins with crooked fingers].
Describes growth of sweetpeas for experiment.
Thanks FG for issues of Revue [Scientifique vol. 7, containing lectures by Claude Bernard].
Ogle says twins [with crooked fingers] are his sisters.
Recommends book by M. A. Puvis [De la dégénération des variétés de végétaux (1837)].
Has heard that FG will write on inheritance. Huxley does not believe in E. G. Balbiani’s views on subject.
In London yesterday for Vivisection Commission.
Is revising his chapter on Pangenesis [in Variation, 2d ed.] to allow that gemmules probably multiply in the reproductive organs.
Notes examples of inheritance of acquired characteristics cited by Brown-Séquard.
Doubts that double parentage is necessary for complex organisations.
Comments on FG’s paper ["A theory of heredity"]. Finds essay difficult to understand. Objects that FG’s theory conflicts with phenomenon of use and disuse. Conflicts also with rarity of bud-variations in nature.
Says he has ordered FG’s article ["The history of twins", Fraser’s Mag. 92 (1875): 566–76; revised in J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 391–406].