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In his paper for Geological Society ["Glacial origin of certain lakes", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 185–204] he will prove that all the lake-basins of the Alps were scooped out by glaciers.
Discusses politics in the U. S. and relations between Britain and America.
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Would like to hear ACR’s new views on origin of mountain lakes, but cannot stand the hot, late meetings [at Geological Society].
Variation in Mollusca. The most abundant forms vary most.
Reports on a bird, offspring of a male mule between a canary and greenfinch, and a hen canary.
Family news.
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Cites case of Owen’s getting compiler’s name removed from title of a British Museum catalogue.
Describes procedures, apparatus, and calculations for determining the static gravity of the earth. Thanks JH for some of his writings, and comments that JH, like Newton, has discovered the mind of the Creator and passed this on to humanity.
Asks JH's help in efforts to publish a complete edition of writings of physicist Augustin Fresnel.
Has heard of mules of canary and other finches breeding occasionally, but it is rare, and there is hardly one authenticated case of two such mules breeding together.
Sixteen of the household at Down are sick with influenza.
JB's solution to torsion thread arrangement is simpler and more ingenious than JH's. Enquires about details of gravimetric balance. Pendulum measurements. Density of continents. Clarification of JH's privileges as foreign associate of Institute. Death of J. B. Biot.
Thanks for their kind feelings towards him.
Admires JDH’s paper on Arctic plants ["Distribution of Arctic plants", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 251–348]. Such papers compel people to reflect on modification of species;
JDH will be driven to a cooled globe.
Serious erratum in paper.
New and original evidence in case of Greenland. Its flora requires accidental means of transport by ice and currents.
Box of Melastomataceae has arrived.
Talked with [Duke of] Argyll about Origin. He is between stools: Owen and Lyell.
Obliged for MTM’s ["Vegetable morphology", Br. & Foreign Med.-Chir. Rev. 29 (1862): 202–18].
Writes that [Murray’s] terms are very favourable; has never heard of such terms offered for a first work. HWB can depend on fact that Murray is pleased with it [The naturalist on the river Amazons].
Thanks for information on domestic animals of Indians.
Glad Murray thinks well of MS of The naturalist on the river Amazons.
CD working on proofs of Orchids.
Pleased at CD’s opinion of his Arctic plants paper. CD has caught great blunder.
Lack of Arctic–Asiatic species in mountains of tropical Asia does not trouble him. Species seem to indicate some "current of migration" from Europe and W. Asia southeastward to Ceylon – an awful staggerer to bridge migrations.
CD returns a paper he has received through [G. B.?] Sowerby. He wishes he could persuade his correspondent to publish papers on such subjects. The series on brachiopods was very striking.