Is "almost certain" plant is Menispermum canadense.
Is "almost certain" plant is Menispermum canadense.
CD’s health remains bad and as he grows older he becomes weaker.
Sends photograph in case recipient collects them.
Recommends papers on Styrian Cave insects and American cave animals.
August Laugel has sent him a copy of his review [of Origin] in Revue des Deux-Mondes [26 (1860): 644–71].
He has sent the list of seeds to J. H. Hooker at Kew. There has been no agreement about a French edition [of Origin]. There is little chance of his being at the BAAS meeting at Oxford.
Comments on the behavior of Sirius with its companion, and on the likelihood of the existence of the inter-Mercurial planet.
Orders one copy of the issue of the Atlantic Monthly for last August (but not worth sending to America for) and two copies of the issue for next October.
Criticizes point in [recipient's] scheme for issuing bank notes.
Thanks correspondent for book on old bones.
CD is obliged for the offer, but he is "too much occupied to contribute to any periodicals".
CD regrets he has to turn down an invitation because of his ill health.
Sends a copy of the paper [with A. R. Wallace, "On the tendency of species to form varieties" (1858), Collected papers 2: 3–19] about which his correspondent asked; CD’s parts were written years ago and not intended for publication; he gave permission for publication of the extracts. Wallace’s paper seems to him excellent.
Thanks correspondent for a remarkable instance of inheritance [not specified].
Has read correspondent’s notice on bent cleavage. Refers him to observations on the same fact in South America, p. 160. CD has also suggested a conjectural explanation.
Thanks for information on inheritance of mental peculiarities in cats.
"As I have never especially attended to Conchology I am sorry to say I cannot tell you the name of the enclosed shell which I now return–"
Thanks for their kind feelings towards him.
Gives permission to insert in his magazine anything from CD’s works.
Declines, regretfully, to contribute to or to have his name appear on a new magazine.