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Extreme interest in MS of HF’s paper on the American fossil elephant [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 43–114].
Pleased HF does not believe in immutable species. Significance of proboscidean group verging towards extinction. Comments on natural selection preserving type despite variability. Natural selection solves problem of how every part of each creature has become adapted.
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Forwarding account of the great comet of 1858. Regarding illustrations for astronomical monographs. Includes several publications of Harvard Observatory.
Mentions a discussion of man by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in his Histoire naturelle générale [1854–62].
Mentions a book by Friedrich Rolle [Ch. Darwin’s Lehre von der Entstehung der Arten (1863)].
Cites evolutionary statements on elephants by Hugh Falconer and notes Falconer’s objection to natural selection.
Thanks for information. Asks for more information about labellum of orchids.
Sends JH's translation of Book II of Homer's Iliad (1862). Hopes to publish it in Cornhill Magazine. Three reasons for wanting it to appear soon.
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Hopes to visit CD with Mellersh and Wickham the week after next.
Inquires whether previous letter was received by CD.
Thanks for superb new information about nebulae in William Herschel's list. Wishes Alexander Herschel could serve as [WL]'s assistant in Valetta. Success of JH's son Alexander in chemistry and meteor research.
Although their views differ, HF is glad they can discuss those differences without offending.
Explains that he returned the MS - part of a paper on fossil and living species of elephant (Falconer 1863) - to Falconer’s house in Park Crescent the previous Thursday.
Thinks Max Müller’s Lectures on the science of language [1861–4] will do a real service to CD and natural selection.
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Has found Lythrum, and sends some. Wants to know what CD thinks of frog discussion between Sandars and James. Asks CD to send objects for microscope demonstration. Means to go see the London Exhibition again. Has finished reading Orley Farm and returns it.
Thanks for opinion on Drosera. After working for a time on a subject he is absolutely incapable of judging its value.
Has found a case in Lythrum of a necessary triple alliance between three hermaphrodites; the strangest case of propagation recorded among plants or animals.
Asks for L. thymifolia to see how a trimorphic form passes or graduates into dimorphic.
Questions JDH on Linum perenne.
Has found 33 hybrids in one field between Verbascum thapsus and V. lychnitis. The perfect series of varieties would have justified running the species together, but every one of the intermediate forms is sterile.
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