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The embryology of the vertebrate nervous system may be an exception to the law of inheritance at corresponding ages.
Outlines advantages of erecting great reflector in Melbourne [WW's colony] for observation of southern nebulae.
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Observations from a fortnight in Lochaber. Found the entrance to Loch Treig to present the clearest evidence of intense glacial action. States, in contradiction of David Milne-Home, that there is glacial scoring in Glen Spean, as Louis Agassiz described, and moraine around the mouth of Loch Treig. There is little sign of water erosion on the rocks crossed by the lines in Glen Roy. Believes the smoothed rocks at the eastern end of Loch Laggan are due to flow from the lake and not tidal action. The lines in Glen Roy are too neat for a lake shore subject to tides. Given the glacial scoring sweeping round from Glen Spean into Glen Treig, and all the boulders, TFJ is astonished that anyone could deny that there had been glaciers there. [See 3247.]
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Thanks for his information. Has been trying to obtain a copy of JH's Outlines Astr. Further queries regarding trade-winds.
Has modified the statements about bees visiting clover for honey in 3d ed. of Origin. Can correspondent find out if clover in Lowestoft district was a second crop?
Is grateful for his note. Will take an early opportunity of placing JH's communication before his readers. Curious the oversight should not have been noticed before. Has no more details of David Brewster's instrument.
Is certain he never had Morren’s paper from JOW or heard of it before JOW’s note; will write to Gardeners’ Chronicle about it [see 3252].
Thanks for the two Sphinx moths; unfortunately the pollen-masses do not belong to orchids but to Asclepias.
Asks whether R. B. Todd’s Cyclopedia of Anatomy and Physiology [1835–59] has an article on fertilisation of orchids.
Asks JH to contribute to The Educational Times.
GR’s letter is a gold-mine.
Pleased to have Pierre Gratiolet’s comment on the embryology of greatly modified organs
and GR’s valuable cases of analogous variation.
Doubts craniologists, but recounts his father’s opinion that the shape of CD’s head was altered when he returned from the Beagle.
After much crossing, has worked out meaning of dimorphism in Primula.
Has read TFJ’s letter on Glen Roy. His arguments seem conclusive. CD gives up the ghost. "My paper is one long gigantic blunder." How rash it is "to argue that because a case is not one thing it must be some second thing which happens to be known to the writer".
Sends an enclosure [a letter from T. F. Jamieson, see 3247].
"I am smashed to atoms about Glen Roy. My paper was one long gigantic blunder."
On Monday he should receive the proof of his communication. Comments on this communication and how it will be presented.
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Requests the names of the parents of Gladiolus gandavensis and six varieties for the purpose of determining their probable origin.
Absence of organic remains in many deposits.
Discusses presence of marine animals near icebergs.
Comments on former geological state of England.
Asks that a copy of Origin [3d ed.] be sent to Mlle Clémence-Auguste Royer; she has arranged with a publisher for a French translation.
Origin is exciting much attention in Germany.
Surprised to receive a Dutch translation.
Has never seen an advertisement [of 3d ed.], which is a pity. Hopes "Bishop of Oxford & Co." have not made JM sorry he published it.
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