Summary

Horned rams of Guinea sheep.

CD’s queries about expression are too difficult for him to answer.

Summary

Loss of juvenile colouring in South Down sheep.

Summary

List giving the numbers of Lepidoptera of different species reared in 1869 and the proportions of the sexes [see Descent 1: 313].

Summary

Thanks for answers about expression.

Is going to N. Wales to recover after his riding accident.

New edition of Origin.

French edition of Orchids.

Summary

WCT should send specimens to Orpington Station.

Invites him to visit, but afraid conversation "would quite knock me up".

Summary

Discusses the bristling of hair in melancholics and the action of the platysma myoides muscle and the grief muscles in the insane.

Summary

Note on proportion of sexes born in sheep.

Summary

Wishes Cupples had said something about health. Sends regards to Mrs Cupples.

Summary

Asks about orbicular muscles in eyes of women suffering in labour.

Inquires about treatment for dyspeptic weakness involving "Volta-Electric Chain bands".

Summary

Thanks AR for his offer to send his observation notes, but since CD will not pursue the subject of variation under domestication, and his German is poor, he urges him to publish them in some periodical.

Summary

Declines invitation.

Summary

Will use new English edition [5th, of Origin] in preparing for [4th] German edition. Bronn’s translation of Origin in the title as "Entstehung" is not so precise as "Ursprung" would be. The publisher does not object to changing the title, but JVC is doubtful, because the Origin is so well known in Germany as Entstehung. Asks CD’s opinion.

Summary

Proportion of sexes in (new-born) lambs equal, but males more likely to die.

Summary

Inquires how CD arrived at the conclusion that fifteen million elephants could be produced from a single pair in five centuries [Origin, 5th ed., p. 74].

Summary

Account of his Russian trip.

Summary

Glad JTM intends to write a paper. Discusses JTM’s research on Arbutus.

CD’s riding accident.

Summary

Ashamed that members of the Entomological Society have almost no information on sex ratio of bred insects in response to CD’s query of months ago. One exception, William Buckler, promises results. [See Descent 1: 313.]

Summary

Thanks for information about expression.

Comments on JC-B’s photographs of insane people.

Sends copy of Duchenne [see 6755].

Asks for further information about platysma, his bête noire for a year or two.

Summary

Observations on birds entering the country in spring. Some have clods of earth on their feet.

Summary

Frankfurt Zoological Garden has only male mandrill. Does CD want description? Antwerp garden may have a pair.