Pleased by CD’s good opinion and offer to provide material. Discusses work he would do on cirripedes.
Moritz Wagner’s views on migration of species;
his doubts about Fritz Müller’s views on developmental stages of Crustacea.
Pleased by CD’s good opinion and offer to provide material. Discusses work he would do on cirripedes.
Moritz Wagner’s views on migration of species;
his doubts about Fritz Müller’s views on developmental stages of Crustacea.
Has inquired about magnetic storms. Any effect that could be produced by the sun’s energy in retarding the cooling of the earth would be utterly insignificant.
Tells of his visit to Eton.
Is uncertain about next steps to take for a legal career.
Down School funds.
Sends MS. Asks CD to recommend it to a scientific society.
Librarian to the Board of Trade proposes a celebration of CD’s 60th birthday by the Vienna Free Press.
Returns a book on beavers borrowed from CD.
Down School funds.
Explains the point about gravitation and heat that CD does not understand in J. Croll’s letter [6218?].
Cambridge news.
Thanks for abstract of Moseley’s paper on motion of glaciers [see 6599]. Reading it convinced him that Tyndall’s received view is wrong. Has formed a new view, which he has sent to Philosophical Magazine [4th ser. 37 (1869): 201–6].
Sends abstract of an article by Carrière [J. Agric. Pratique 1 (1869): 159–67] on the improvement of wild radish by selection.
Habits of the fallow deer during the breeding season. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 803.]
One of his students is interested in translating Orchids into French.
Sends CD his pamphlet [Über Landwirtschaftlichen Genossenschaften (1868)];
expresses his admiration for CD’s work.
Her memorial [for civil list pension] with the signatures of CD, John Lubbock, and Charles Lyell has arrived. It is now going to W. E. Gladstone.
Has been trying to get Drosophyllum lusitanicum for CD.
Intends to breed from two pointers born tailless.
Answers CD’s letter of 15 Feb about voice of female and odour of stag red deer.
There will be no objection to the French translation or difficulty about woodcuts of Orchids.
Has not yet received the information about Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin.
Asks CD for references to animal breeders in order to test the hypothesis that mimicry arises through direct action of mental impressions received through the sense of sight.
Supports natural selection and Pangenesis.
Sends information from a Kent sheep-breeder.
Estimates cost of F. Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin at £86 for 750 copies, less than £10 extra for 1000.