Thanks Sclater for forwarding on a letter from Hampden and for the reply Sclater has written to it.
Thanks Sclater for forwarding on a letter from Hampden and for the reply Sclater has written to it.
Will mention JH's subject for investigation to Sir William Thomson. Is busy with Committee on Ships of War.
Invites AG to stay at Down. Winwood Reade and, he hopes, Hooker and Robert Swinhoe will be there.
Finished the last proofs of Descent a few days ago. "I shall be well abused."
St George Mivart’s Genesis [of species]: very good, unfortunately theological. Will tell heavily against natural selection but not against evolution, and this is "infinitely more important".
JBI regrets his part in appointments of his successors.
His friendship with CD and its effect on his fellow clerics.
Is obliged for StGJM’s book [On the genesis of species (1871)].
Would not have sent him vol. 1 [of Descent] if he had known that StGJM’s book was already published.
Requests publication of a notice of the recalculation by H. J. R. Petersen of the Gaussian constants of terrestrial magnetism.
Responds to Mivart’s Genesis of species. "I complain of his incessently speaking as if I trusted exclusively to natural selection … Mivart speaks in many places as if I entirely ignored the direct action of external conditions". Answers some of Mivart’s particular criticisms. Suggests FD read the letter to Marlborough Robert Pryor, as Pryor will never be able to read it himself.
Thanks CD for vol. 1 of Descent. Feels nothing but sympathy and esteem for a writer labouring for the promotion of what he conscientiously believes to be the truth.
Has sent a note to Nature stating the details of the grant paid by the B.A.A.S. to H. J. R. Petersen for magnetic observations.
Comments on use of 'air' lens rather than glass in some circumstances.
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Suggests Mivart should have read account of Niata Cattle.
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Comments on StGJM’s book [Genesis of species (1871)]. Has no personal objection to a word of it, but regrets their views differ so much.
Acknowledges StGJM’s kind letter. [See 7451.]
Offers to alter the "dogmatic assertion" referred to on page 102 [of StGJM’s On the genesis of species] but in 5th ed. of Origin and in Variation CD finds only qualified expressions.
Is grateful for his comments on his own paper on vision. Would he refer him to the work by Mr. Chopal on lens.
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