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2010How much time have I lost by illness?"
2010I then asked him, perhaps with a sneer, whether he thought that the answer of slaves in the presence of their master was worth anything?
2010Mr. Leighton goes on,"This greatly roused my attention and curiosity, and I enquired of him repeatedly how this could be done?"
46482Nature lovers?
46482***** Why?
46482And where are the enduring products of the thrifty and worthy souls that found Thoreau wanting in his day?
46482Did Shelley interpret the song of the skylark, or Keats that of the nightingale?
46482Does the sculptor interpret the marble or his own ideal?
46482Eckerman could instruct Goethe in ornithology, but could not Goethe instruct Eckerman in the meaning and mystery of the bird?
46482Is the music in the instrument, or in the soul of the performer?
46482What have they done that interests the world now?
42559Again and again I would approach him from a different direction, and, when within touching distance, call,"Where is Scotch?"
42559And Scotch?
42559But could we avoid being smothered?
42559ILLUSTRATIONS SCOTCH AND HIS MASTER_ Frontispiece_ HIS FIRST KENNEL 4 PUPPY SCOTCH 8 CHIPMUNKS?
42559Such a climb would not be especially difficult or dangerous for me, but could Scotch do it?
42559Though I looked at him and asked,"What do you want done here?"
42559Was the storm quieting down, or was its roar muffled and lost in the deepening cover of snow?
42559Would I go out on the trail with him, or go to the post office and leave him behind?
42559[ Illustration: CHIPMUNKS?]
7404''Is the master at home?'' 7404 _ Not see Sir Walter Scott_?"
7404''Pray, sir,''said the man of golden consequence,''is this a letter of business, or is it a mere letter of introduction?''
74041797(?)
7404And why should the would- be murderers use a knife when they had guns?
7404Did remote prairie cabins in those days have grindstones and carving knives?
7404Had not his wondrous pen penetrated my soul with the consciousness that here was a genius from God''s hand?
7404He retorted,''What the devil did I know about birds?''
7404With her was I not always rich?"
36304This is my first attempt to write in my Token; why may it not be the last? 36304 ''Do you intend to prosecute your studies alone?'' 36304 A strong curiosity soon prompted me to inquire,''What is your name, my little boy?'' 36304 And where death''s boasted victory, his last triumphant spell? 36304 By force, temporal power, temporal rewards, earthly triumphs? 36304 Creery?'' 36304 His infidelity now began to give way, and he inquired with solicitude:Is there such a thing as the new birth, and if so, in what does it consist?"
36304How then was the subject of this memoir influenced by_ religious_ considerations?
36304I have passed the flower of my days in a state little better than slavery, and have arrived at what?
36304Is it for this that their zeal is so warmly displayed in proselyting?
36304Is it surprising that sceptics should abound, when the slightest allowance of belief would force them to condemn all their actions?
36304Is it, then, wonderful that such a system should find revilers?
36304Is such the gain to accrue for the relinquishment of our souls?
36304What do sceptics propose to give us in exchange for this system of Christianity, with its''hidden mysteries,''''miracles,''''signs and wonders?''
36304What is the mode in which this most extraordinary doctrine of Christianity is to be diffused?
36304What motive could the evangelists have to falsify?
36304even there wilt be my guardian and my guide, For what is pain, if Thou art nigh its bitterness to quell?
7280Saw me do what?
7280And does a bee really work?
7280As he lay groaning and rubbing himself he heard his wife call,"John, did you break the pitcher?"
7280At each one of the four houses we passed on the way I asked,"Who lives there?"
7280Did you row in the races?
7280Does it fall back again into nature as the wave falls back into the ocean, to be gathered up and focussed in other minds?
7280Does it have to keep on doing what it dislikes to do long after it is tired out?
7280Does it have to make any conscious effort to fare forth among the flowers?
7280Every night at supper Father would say to him,"Well, Jonathan, how many shock today?"
7280Has there been a heavy rain, and has it done any damage to the vineyard?
7280How about that course in Geology given by Shaler?
7280I stay my haste, I make delays, For what avails this eager pace?
7280I thought you were going to take that?
7280If I come to C when would you rather I should come?
7280If the earth and the sky are enough for one, why should one sigh for other spheres?
7280If you get a week had you rather not come home then than to have me come now?
7280Is it not doing exactly what it enjoys or wants to do?
7280One farmer would ask another,"How many oats are you going to sow, or have you sown?"
7280The"panoramas"--what has become of them?
7280What do the chipmunks, red squirrels, and weasels do in a country without stone fences?
7280What matter if I stand alone?
7280What race are you preparing for now?
7280Which of us will go next?
7280Who could it be?
7280Why did n''t you fill it by daylight?"
39979A bad night this, strangers; how came you to be along the fence? 39979 And where is it?"
39979And why to- morrow, Mr. Audubon? 39979 And why,"answered I,"have you left your quarters, where certainly you must have fared better than in these unwholesome swamps?"
39979Are you hurt, sir?
39979But how are we to get them out?
39979How much?
39979How, sir?
39979My wife and I teach them all that is_ useful_ for them to know, and is not that enough? 39979 No?"
39979Pray, friend, what have you killed?
39979There,said he,"did not I tell you so; is it not rare sport?"
39979Toby, come back; do n''t you know the stranger is not up to the woods? 39979 What now?"
39979What now?
39979All this raised my curiosity to such a height that I accosted him with,"Pray, sir, will you allow me to examine the birds you have in that cage?"
39979But what is description compared with the reality?
39979Can he swim well?
39979Can you see the poor toad kicking and flouncing in the water?
39979Do you paint, sir?"
39979Have they told you that this boat was used, after the tedious voyage was ended, as the first dwelling of these new settlers?
39979I nodded, and he continued,"What the devil do you know about birds, sir?"
39979If our Congress will not allow our traders to sell whiskey or rum to the Indians, why should not the British follow the same rule?
39979Now ought not this subject to be brought before the press in our country and forwarded to England?
39979Now who will tell me that no animal can compete with this Fox in speed, when Harris, mounted on an Indian horse, overtook it in a few minutes?
39979Shall I ever have the pleasure of seeing that good, that generous man again?
39979Shall I speak to him, and ask him the result of this first essay?
39979Shall I tell you that I have seen masses of these logs heaped above each other to the number of five thousand?
39979The Indians, who were quite numerous, clustered about him, and asked him what the bird came to him for?
39979The loss proved too much for him; he called his wife, and, after telling her what a faithful husband he had been, said to her,"Why should we live?
39979Thirty, or thirty thousand?
39979What do you think, reader, as to the number of Cod secured in this manner in a single haul?
39979What sort of bed can you fix for them?"
39979What''s that?
39979Where now are the bulls which erst scraped its earth away, bellowing forth their love or their anger?
39979Who could have heard such a tale without emotion?
39979Who could not with a little industry have helped himself to a few of their skins?
39979Who is he of the settlers on the Mississippi that can not realize some profit?
39979Who knows but I may shoot a turkey or a deer?
39979Who''s there?
39979Who, in this world, man or fish, has not enough of them?
39979[ Andrew?]
39979all we cared for is taken from us, and why not at once join our child in the land of the Great Spirit?"
39979ay and Ravens too?
39979for to say,"What have you shot at?"
39979what do you mean?"
39979why did you kill so many Crows last winter?
39979you''ve played us a trick, have you?
2317But what may be without that stratum?
2317But what would be said if a carpenter about to commence a piece of work examined his tools and deliberately cast away that with the finest edge?
2317But, further than that, let us ask, Where then will be the sum and outcome of their labour?
2317By which they may be guided, by which hope, by which look forward?
2317Can any creed, philosophy, system, or culture endure the test and remain unmolten in this fierce focus of human life?
2317Can the half- divine thought of Plato, rising in storeys of sequential ideas, following each other to the conclusion, endure here?
2317Could I bring it into such a shape as would admit of actually working upon the lines it indicated for any good?
2317How could a person who had lost teeth before twenty be ever said to die of old age, though he died at a hundred and ten?
2317How many, many years, how many cycles of years, how many bundles of cycles of years, had the sun glowed down thus on that hollow?
2317How?
2317I swam, and what is more delicious than swimming?
2317If the clock had never been set going, what would have been the difference?
2317If the entire human race perished at this hour, what difference would it make to the earth?
2317If they wither away like summer grass, will not at least a result be left which those of a hundred years hence may be the better for?
2317In that elaborate ritual, in the procession of the symbols, in the winged circle, in the laborious sarcophagus?
2317Is ideal man, then, to be idle?
2317Is there any meaning in those ancient caves?
2317Is there anything I can do?
2317Juno''s wide back and mesial groove, is any thing so lovely as the back?
2317Let my soul be but a product, what then?
2317Men and women have practised self- denial, and to what end?
2317Of whom else can it be said that he had no enemies to forgive because he recognised no enemy?
2317Or did it come into life with my body, as a product, like a flame, of combustion?
2317Since it was formed how long?
2317The aged caves of India, who shall tell when they were sculptured?
2317The questions are: Did my soul exist before my body was formed?
2317The shadow goes on upon the dial, the index moves round upon the clock, and what is the difference?
2317The sweetness of the day, the fulness of the earth, the beauteous earth, how shall I say it?
2317There would be gaping and marvelling and rushing about, and what then?
2317This is obvious, and yet some say, What can you effect by the soul?
2317Turn, then, to the calm reasoning of Aristotle; is there anything in that?
2317Water he can drink, but it is not produced for him; how many thousands have perished for want of it?
2317What for?
2317What is in Assyria?
2317What is there which I have not used to strengthen the same emotion?
2317What will become of it after death?
2317What would the earth care?
2317When will it be possible to be certain that the capacity of a single atom has been exhausted?
2317When?
2317Where is the limit to that physical sign?
2317Where will be these millions of to- day in a hundred years?
2317Why are they at all?
2317Why do people die of starvation, or lead a miserable existence on the verge of it?
2317Why have millions upon millions to toil from morning to evening just to gain a mere crust of bread?
2317Why this clod of earth I hold in my hand?
2317Why this water which drops sparkling from my fingers dipped in the brook?
2317Why, then, have we not enough?
2317Why?
2317Will it simply go out like a flame and become non- existent, or will it live for ever in one or other mode?
2317Wind and earth, sea, and night and day, what then?
15998''Then why,''I asked again,''do you ever wear them?''
15998''Why,''I asked,''do you sometimes take off your spectacles to read the paper?''
1599817"Is Mars Habitable?"
1599846"Shall we have Common Sense?"
15998And for what?
15998Are lizards and sea- birds the only, or even the chief, possible enemies of the species?
15998Aug. 14| 1908| Public Opinion| Is it Peace or War?
15998But here comes the question-- are there any land- quadrupeds in Bali or in Lombok?
15998Can you refer me to any papers by yourself which might enlighten me and perhaps answer some of these queries?
15998Can you tell me whether Darwin did teach this?
15998Closely associated with"Man''s Place in the Universe"is a small volume,"Is Mars Habitable?"
15998Could it exist an hour?
15998Even if the Glacial period was such that it was enveloped in a Greenlandic winding- sheet, there would have been some Antarctic animals?
15998Firstly, on the principle that the resistance in a fluid, and I believe also in air, increases in a greater ratio than the velocity(?
15998Had n''t I better decline it, with thanks?
15998Has anybody answered de Vries yet?
15998Have they?
15998Have you ever considered the explanation of this fact on Darwinian principles?
15998Have you seen Mivart''s book,"Genesis of Species"?
15998How else can you produce a more equal distribution of wealth than by making the rich and idle pay more and the workers receive more?
15998I have put"?"
15998I presume your question"Why?"
15998If you have or can get this work of his with that paper, can you lend it me for a few days?
15998In these views may he not become the peer of Darwin?
15998Is not that clear?
15998Is such a condition of things physically possible?
15998Is there, then, a depth of 600 feet in that narrow strait of Bali, which seems in my map only two miles or so in breadth?
15998It surprises me, however, how much we differ, and it is another illustration of the problems[?]
15998May I ask-- as a very great favour-- to be allowed to call on you some day in London, and to see your insects?
15998Must we unite South America with the Galapagos Islands?
15998New Edition, 1 vol., 1908 1907"Is Mars Habitable?"
15998October 22, 1897._ My dear Violet,--In your previous letter you asked me the conundrum, Why does a wagtail wag its tail?
15998P.S.--Two of my books have been translated into Japanese: will you ascertain whether the Bodleian would like to have them?
15998R. Miller, on Sleeper''s"Shall we have Common Sense?"
15998Reply to||| Dr. Saleeby Nov. 12| 1903| Daily Mail| Does Man Exist in Other Worlds?
15998Stirling''s"Darwinianism, Workmen and||| Work""| 549|"| B. Kidd''s"Social Evolution""| 610|"| What are Zoological Regions?
15998Sunday,[?
15998That terrible indictment was doubly underscored in his MS. What, in his mature judgment, were the causes and remedies?
15998The question is, which speculation is most in accordance with the known facts, and not with prepossessions only?
15998Thursday evening,[?
15998WALLACE[?
15998We are satisfied with illimitability at one end, why not at the other?''
15998What has been gained by your séances, compared to your studies?
15998What kept the almost infinitely rare metallic gases in the gaseous state all this time?
15998Why should there have been no mammalia, rodents and marsupials, or only one mouse?
15998Why this instead of the usual"protective"?
15998Will it not be about 1 in 64?
15998Will you please plant them out carefully in the zinc tray of peat and sphagnum that stands outside near the little greenhouse door?
15998[ 31]"The Bearing of the Study of Insects upon the Question, Are Acquired Characters Hereditary?"
15998[ 40]"Shall we have Common Sense?
15998a century?
15998a day?
15998a year?
15998and where is he who knows?
15998between the inorganic and organic, between vegetable and animal, and between animal and man, I asked,''Why postulate a beginning at all?
15998| 273| 1900| Is New Zealand a Zoological Region?
15998| 611| 1889| Which are the Highest Butterflies?
15998| Are Individually Acquired May||| Characters Inherited?
15998| The Problem of Utility: Are||( v. 25)| Specific Characters always or||| generally Useful?
15998| The Remedy for Unemployment July||| July| 1908| Times| Letter on the First Paper on||| Natural Selection July| 1908| Delineator| Are the Dead Alive?
15998| of Bouru April| 1863| Zoologist|Who are the Humming- Bird''s||| Relations?
20556But,he asks,"should we conclude from this that there has necessarily occurred a universal catastrophe, a general overturning?
20556Can any of them be more striking than that which the_ kangaroo_ offers us? 20556 Can there be in natural history a consideration more important, and to which we should give more attention, than that which I have just stated?
20556Even if the invention of printing had been more ancient than it is, what would have resulted at the end of ten thousand years? 20556 Has God limited his creations to the existence of only matter and nature?
20556Have I not, at p.   412, put the vast distinction between you and Lamarck as to''necessary progression''strongly enough?
20556I ask what experienced zoölogist or botanist is there who has not thoroughly realized that which I have just explained to you? 20556 Is not cultivated wheat(_ Triticum sativum_) only a plant brought by man into the condition in which we actually see it?
20556Life is the result of organization.--(?)
20556What is a spiritual being? 20556 Where occur in nature our cabbage, lettuce, etc., in the condition in which we see them in our kitchen- gardens?
20556Why,he asks,"should not heat and electricity act on certain matters under favorable conditions and circumstances?"
20556[ 112] From whom did he get this idea that seeds or eggs are envelopes of all sorts of germs? 20556 8^o)? 20556 After paying his respects to Priestley, he asks:What, then, can be the reason why the views of chemists and mine are so opposed?"
20556Are they now found in this condition in nature?
20556But can we not assign him laws in the execution of his will, and determine the method which he has followed in this respect?
20556CHAPTER XV WHEN DID LAMARCK CHANGE HIS VIEWS REGARDING THE MUTABILITY OF SPECIES?
20556De toute part on acclame le grand naturaliste, et''il n''y a pas même une rue portant son nom aux environs du Jardin des Plantes?
20556Did Buffon''s guarded suggestions have no influence on the young Lamarck?
20556Do you not confound the seminary with the ancient college of Rue Poste de Paris, college now destroyed?"
20556Does not botany, which considers the other series, comprising the plants, offer us, in its different parts, a state of things perfectly similar?
20556How impossible will it be to distinguish and lay down a line beyond which some of the so- called extinct species have never passed into recent ones?"
20556How, he asks, can they reappear?
20556In which of these views did Buffon really believe?
20556Is it not more likely that these simple organisms are themselves regenerated?
20556Is it not the same as regards a number of animals which domestication has changed or considerably modified?
20556Is it satisfactorily proved, in fact, that species may be originated by selection?
20556Is not wheat(_ Triticum sativum_) a plant brought by man to the state wherein we actually see it, which otherwise I could not believe?
20556Qu''étaient nos connaissances à l''époque de De Lamarck sur les Polypiers?
20556WHEN DID LAMARCK CHANGE HIS VIEWS REGARDING THE 226 MUTABILITY OF SPECIES?
20556Was it negligence, was it the jealousy of his colleagues, was it the result of the troubles of 1830?
20556Was this period of six years, between 1794 and 1800, given to a reconsideration of the subject resulting in favor of the doctrine of descent?
20556What are the natural consequences of the influence and the movements of the waters on the surface of the globe?
20556Who can now say in what place its like lives in nature?
20556Why are only the two extremes living?"
20556[ 254]"Does Natural Selection play any Part in the Origin of Species among Plants?"
20556that none of the phenomena exhibited by species are inconsistent with the origin of species in this way?
20556that there is such a thing as natural selection?
6561''Silence''? 6561 ''That''s the book, is it?''
6561And yet, is it not best so? 6561 Are there any bee- trees around here?"
6561Are these rocks very old?
6561But why must you be tied to the calendar? 6561 But you wo n''t be crusty to him, will you?"
6561How does this compare with Esopus Valley, Johnnie?
6561How much is this?
6561Is n''t it time to get out now, Curtis?
6561Is_ that_ the best dish- cloth you have?
6561Mr. Burroughs, why do n''t you PAINT things?
6561Muir, are n''t you surprised to find me with two women in my wake?
6561Of course,I replied;"where is your dish- cloth?"
6561The thing which a man''s nature calls him to do-- what else so well worth doing?
6561Well, and did it sound any different from what it did last year, and the year before, and the year before that?
6561Well, then, why ca n''t you have it some other day?
6561What is an algebra?
6561Where are_ my_ knife and fork?
6561Why should I go gadding about to see the strange and the extraordinary?
6561You are going to help, are you?
6561_ You_ sulk, and own up to it, too?
6561After the exercises were over he said to the professor,"Why do n''t you teach your girls to spin a plain yarn?"
6561And what graces a dish- pan better than a clean, whole, self- respecting dish- cloth?
6561As the train stopped near the little inn, a voice called out in the darkness,"Hello, Johnnie, is that you?"
6561At El Tovar he asked,"What boy brought up my bags?"
6561But I have not yet solved my equation-- what sent me to nature?
6561But do we find such sermonizing irksome?
6561But why continue?
6561Ca n''t you celebrate Johnnie''s birthday a few days later just as well?
6561Can the old farm ever mean to future boys what it meant to me, and enter so deeply into their lives?
6561Can you understand this?
6561Can you work and wait long enough?
6561Do n''t you?"
6561Do we not turn to writers of the first class with eagerness, slaking our thirst, refreshing our minds at perennial springs?
6561Do we outgrow him?--or do we fall away from him?
6561Do you really like them?
6561Do you see why men do not, as a rule, care for me, and why women do?
6561Do you, then, know John Burroughs?"
6561Does not the grass grow above graves?
6561Have you the requisite patience and persistency?
6561He would sweep the assembly with that searching glance, as much as to say,''What is all this buzzing and chirping about?''
6561How can transformation be more perfect?
6561How does he do this?
6561I can remember the teacher saying to him;''And you ca n''t tell that?
6561I stay my haste, I make delays, For what avails this eager pace?
6561Is it the spring near his father''s sugar bush that we see?
6561Is not this the alchemy that turns into gold the commonest substances?
6561Is that why I shrink from the wear and tear of the world?
6561Oh, yes; silence is very well-- some kinds of it; but_ why make such a noise about silence_?"
6561On my expressing keen disappointment he teasingly said:--"Why, you will have Johnnie, and Mr. Browne, and the mountains-- what more do you want?"
6561Or he would say,"How is that for a piece of glacial work, Johnnie?"
6561Prosaic, if you will, but does not his own Emerson say something about giving--"to barrows, trays, and pans, Grace and glimmer of romance"?
6561So we are not to gather wild honey, I find; but what of that?--am I not actually walking in the woods with John Burroughs?
6561The first three paragraphs of"Deep"give a fair sample of the essay:-- Deep authors?
6561The mystery of personality-- how shall one fathom it?
6561What are the books, and notably the later philosophical essays, of Mr. Burroughs but the"harvest of a quiet eye"?
6561What day can compare with a Sunday to go to the waterfalls, or to"Piney Ridge,"or to"Columbine Ledge,"or to stroll along"Snake Lane"?
6561What is it in his recitals that quickens our senses and perceptions and makes our own youth alive and real?
6561What made me take an intellectual interest in outdoor things?
6561What matter if I stand alone?
6561What quality is it, though, that so moves and stirs us when Mr. Burroughs recounts some of the simple happenings of his youth?
6561What were his feelings about all these things he has been at such pains to record?
6561When I was presented, Emerson said in a slow, questioning way,''Burroughs-- Burroughs?''
6561When we would come in at dinner- or supper- time and see wheat bread on the table we would ask:"Who''s in the other room?"
6561Who cares about the anatomy of the frog?
6561Who, indeed, except those prosaic beings who are blind and deaf to the most precious things in life?
6561Why not?
6561Why should these lovely scenes always be a cemetery to me?
6561Will you?
6561With a mingling of anxiety and curiosity he inquired:"Are you sure it''s all right?
6561Would one be lonesome here?
6561what vegetarian ever found it in his heart, or his palate either, to repudiate butter?
51426Dost thou still haunt the brink Of yonder river''s tide? 51426 In your intercourse with the dwellers in the great city, have you alighted on Mr. Edward Palmer, who studies with Dr. Beach, the Herbalist?
51426Is thy brow clear again, As in thy youthful years? 51426 Nor king, nor duke?
51426Then how does he come by his English?
51426What bird wilt thou employ To bring me word of thee? 51426 What season didst thou find?
51426Where chiefly shall I look To feel thy presence near? 51426 Where is the finch, the thrush I used to hear?
51426Who is the speaker?
51426Who sings the praise of woman in our clime? 51426 ''Ca n''t we study up something?'' 51426 ''Why should I? 51426 *****Is''t then too late the damage to repair?
51426A fellow- sufferer from the same affliction, who lived in Cohasset, was asked, the other day, what in the world he took for it?
51426Along the neighboring brook May I thy voice still hear?
51426And is fear the foundation of that worship?
51426And may I ever think That thou art by my side?
51426And was that ugly pain The summit of thy fears?
51426Are not the Fates more kind Than they appear?
51426But as I am, equally with you, an admirer of Cowper, why should I not prove a sort of unnecessary addition to your neighborhood possibly?
51426But as I did not, will you allow me to seek you out, when next I come to Concord?
51426But is not their whole process marred by leaving out common sense, by which mankind are generally governed?
51426But what do I, or does any friend of mine in America care for a journal?
51426Ca n''t you ask her to write it for me?
51426Ca n''t you cut it into three or four, and omit all that relates to time?
51426Did they wait for his Counsell?"
51426Do I exercise the faith in the divine care and protection which I ought to do?
51426Do I not withhold more than is meet from pious and charitable uses?
51426Do you wish to swap any of your''wood- notes wild''for dollars?
51426Does a man deserve to be rewarded for refraining from murder?
51426Does anybody still think of coming to Concord to live?
51426Does that execrable compound of sawdust and stagnation L. still prose about nothing?
51426Dost thou, indeed, fare well, As we wished here below?
51426Have I done well to get me a shay?
51426Have I not been proud or too fond of this convenience?
51426He at once recognized his Concord friend, greeted him cordially with"How do you do, my little rebel?"
51426He can keep them as a literary_ curio_, and in his old age amuse himself with thinking,''How could ever I have liked these?''"
51426He has a vast many Talents,--is it an easy thing for so Wise a man to become a Fool for Christ?
51426His deeds may never be forgotten; but is this greatness?
51426How camest thou there?
51426How old should you think he was?
51426I mean new people?
51426I vow-- you-- what noise was that?
51426Indeed, what Greek would not be proud to claim this fragment as his own?
51426Is anything going on about it now?
51426Is fear the ruling principle of our religion?
51426Is hope a less powerful incentive to action than fear?
51426Is it a bargain?
51426Is it not rather the mother of superstition?
51426Is the greatest virtue merely negative?
51426May he not have a prospect of doubling his Wealth and Honours, if crowned with Success?
51426May we depend on you?
51426Should I not be more in my study, and less fond of diversion?
51426Should we not be likely to find the truth, in all moral subjects, were we to make more use of plain reason and common sense?
51426Some have asked,''Can not reward be substituted for punishment?
51426Thoreau?''
51426Was I not present to thee, likewise?"
51426Was the Lord first consulted in the affair?
51426What Demonstration has he given of being so entirely devoted to the Lord?
51426What about your book( the''Week'')?
51426What do you think of following out your thought in an essay on''The Literary Life?''
51426What images can be more natural, what sentiments of greater weight and at the same time more noble and exalted than those with which they abound?
51426What sun shines for thee now?
51426When a political pharmacopoeia has the command of both ingredients, wherefore employ the bitter instead of the sweet?''
51426When asked why he did not stop the trespasser, he replied,"Could not the poor man have a tree?"
51426Where was George Minott?
51426Who can predict his comings and goings?
51426Who wonders that the flesh declines to grow Along his sallow pits?
51426Why did not Emerson try it in England?
51426Will you finish the poem in your own way, and send it for the''Dial''?
51426Will you not send me some other records of the_ good week_?"
51426Wo n''t you send them again?
51426Would it be no advantage to his Estate to win the place?
51426Yet what could a companion do at present, unless to tame the guardian of the Alps too early?
51426You will see that they apply to himself:"--"Brother, where dost thou dwell?
51426and I wonder-- you-- if Henry''s been to see George Jones yet?
51426and that nutmeg- grater of a Z. yet shriek about nothing?
51426do you make the Lord your Guide and Counselor in ye affair?
51426or does it rather consist in the performance of a thousand every- day duties, hidden from the eye of the world?"
51426or that his life, To social pleasure careless, pines away In dry seclusion and unfruitful shade?
51426so great a man to become a Little Child?
51426so rich a man to crowd in at the Strait Gate of Conversion, and make so little noise?...
51426the reply was,"Why are you_ not_ here?"
51426you-- does he look as if he were two years younger than I?''"
39975Had I any drawings to show?
39975Pray, have you seen Mr. Audubon''s collections of birds? 39975 _ Not see Walter Scott?_"thought I;"I SHALL, if I have to crawl on all- fours for a mile!"
39975A gentleman soon came to me, and asked if perchance my name was Audubon?
39975Am I to lead this life long?
39975And why, have I thought a thousand times, should I not have kept to that delicious mode of living?
39975Are not we of America men?
39975Bank Swallows in sight this moment, with the weather thick, foggy, and an east wind; where are these delicate pilgrims bound?
39975Basil Hall think of a squatter''s hut in Mississippi in contrast with this?
39975But this is not all,--who,_ now_, will deny the existence of the Labrador Falcon?
39975But young heads are on young shoulders; it was not to be, and who cares?
39975Cloud ten hours,--they told us fifty thousand(?)
39975Comment va?"
39975Did he forget to question the all- knowing police, or did the gentleman at the Messageries exaggerate?
39975Did the ancient artists and colorists ever glaze their work?
39975Do men forget, or do they not know how swiftly time moves on?
39975Dost thou think I said"Yes"?
39975Had not his wondrous pen penetrated my soul with the consciousness that here was a genius from God''s hand?
39975Have we not the same nerves, sinews, and mental faculties which other nations possess?
39975Have you seen Barons Vacher and La Brouillerie?"
39975He said to me,"Why do not you write a little book telling what you have seen?"
39975Here we were detained nearly an hour; how would this work in the States?
39975How is it that our sages tell us our species is much improved?
39975How many must the multitude of Mormons inhabiting this island destroy daily?
39975I can not write at all, but if I could how could I make a_ little_ book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen_ large_ books?
39975I could relate many curious anecdotes about him, but never mind them; he made out to grow rich, and what more could_ he_ wish for?
39975I exclaimed,"why, who are they?"
39975I had seen each individual when toasted, rise, and deliver a speech; that being the case, could I remain speechless like a fool?
39975I heard the delightful song of the Ruby- crowned Wren again and again; what would I give to find the nest of this_ northern Humming- Bird_?
39975I saw upwards of twelve of Harris''new Finch(?)
39975I took my drawing of the Pheasant to Mr. Fanetti''s(?)
39975If a boy, it was,''Well, my little man,''or a little girl,''Good morning, lassie, how are you to- day?''
39975In the evening I visited Mr. Howe, the editor of the"Courant"and then to the theatre with Mr. Bridges to see Wairner(?)
39975Is it because the constant evidence of the contrast between the rich and the poor is a torment to me, or is it because of its size and crowd?
39975Is it not shocking that while in England all is hospitality_ within_, all is so different_ without_?
39975Is not this a curious story?
39975It is both amusing and distressing to see how inimical to each other men of science are; and why are they so?
39975It is dreadful to know of the want of bread here; will it not lead to the horrors of another revolution?
39975It is wonderful to me; am I, or is my work, deserving of all this?
39975Now is it not too bad that I can not do so, for want of talent?
39975Now what will not man do to deceive his brother?
39975Now, do those good gentlemen expect me to remain in Paris all my life?
39975Now, my Lucy, who could have thought to make a thing like that?
39975Now, my love, wouldst thou not believe me once more in the woods, hard at it?
39975One of these pictures is from my sketch of an Eagle pouncing on a Lamb,[156] dost thou remember it?
39975Query, is it the same which is found in Europe?
39975Query: how many amongst my now long list of subscribers will continue the work throughout?
39975Shall I ever again see and enjoy the vast forests in their calm purity, the beauties of America?
39975The Captain wishes to write a book, and he spoke of it with as little concern as I should say,"I will draw a duck;"is it not surprising?
39975The question presented was"Which was the more advantageous, the discovery of the compass, or that of the art of printing?"
39975The service and sermon were long and tedious; often to myself I said,"Why is not Sydney Smith here?"
39975To finish highly without destroying the general effect, or to give the general effect and care not about the finishing?
39975To the great and good man himself I can never say this, therefore he can never know it, or my feelings towards him-- but if he did?
39975Travelling wherever chance or circumstance may lead you?
39975Very different, is it not, from looking up a large decaying tree, watching the movements of a Woodpecker?
39975Was I inclined to cut my throat in foolish despair?
39975Was I to repine because I had acted like an honest man?
39975Was I to see my beloved Lucy and children suffer and want bread, in the abundant State of Kentucky?
39975We had coffee, and the company increased rapidly; amongst them all I knew only Captain Parry, M. de Condolleot(?
39975Well, is not this a long digression for thee?
39975Were those talents to remain dormant under such exigencies?
39975What brains he must have, and-- how long can he keep them?
39975What has since taken place?
39975What would I have been now if equally gifted by nature at that age?
39975What would be said to a gang of Wild Turkeys,--several hundred trotting along a sand- bar of the Upper Mississippi?
39975What would they say of a half- million of Robins about to take their departure for the North, making our woods fairly tremble with melodious harmony?
39975When the president entered Mr. Combe said:"I have here two gentlemen of talent; will you please tell us in what their natural powers consist?"
39975Where can I go now, and visit nature undisturbed?
39975Where is the time gone when I was considered one of the best of players?
39975Which way, pray, are you travelling?
39975Whilst I looked at this mass I thought, What have_ I_ done, compared with what this man has done, and has to do?
39975Who has not felt a sense of fear while trying to combine all this?
39975Who would have expected such things from the woods of America?"
39975Who, recalling her early married life, can wonder that she hesitated before leaving this home for the vicissitudes of an unknown city?
39975Why did Mrs. Trollope not visit Halifax?
39975Why do people make such errors with my simple name?
39975Will the result repay the exertions?
39975With her was I not always rich?
39975With the exception of Mr. Harris, all were engaged by Audubon, who felt his time was short, his duties many, while the man of seventy(?)
39975Yet, after all, who can say that it was not a material advantage, both to myself and to the world, that the Norway rats destroyed those drawings?"
39975_ June 18._ Is it not strange I should suffer whole weeks to pass without writing down what happens to me?
39975_ Why_ do I dislike London?
39975and why should not mankind in general be more abstemious than mankind is?
39975between us and them there existed a regular line of willows-- and who ever saw willows grow far from water?
39975can not I return to America?
39975canus_ as merely a straggler in North America, with the query,"accidental in Labrador?"
39975how can I bear the loss of our truest friend?
39975how dull I feel; how long am I to be confined in this immense jail?
39975was this the way to use a man who paid you so amply and so punctually?
39975what can I hope, my Lucy, for thee and for us all?
39975what good work is here, but most of the painters of these beautiful pictures are no longer on this earth, and who is there to keep up their standing?
38629Lord Mayor.--Probably the clergyman of the parish might exert some influence over them? 38629 ''What have they to bring forward?'' 38629 ( Do you mean_ living_ naturalists? 38629 ( Shall I?) 38629 * 1854? 38629 * 1870? 38629 * 1874? 38629 And is he willing to publish my Abstract? 38629 And now I should like to know in what one particular are you less of a blackguard than I am? 38629 And what do you think would be fair terms for an edition? 38629 And( 2)--When and how did he conceive the manner in which species are modified; when did he begin to believe in Natural Selection? 38629 Are you not acting unfairly towards yourself? 38629 As for Christ''s, did you ever see such a college for producing Captains and Apostles? 38629 As to your grand principle--_natural selection_--what is it but a secondary consequence of supposed, or known, primary facts? 38629 At the end of one of the parts, which was exceedingly impressive, he turned round to me and said, with a deep sigh,''How''s your backbone?''
38629But as I had not intended to publish any sketch, can I do so honourably, because Wallace has sent me an outline of his doctrine?
38629But may I beg of you one favour, it will be doing me the greatest kindness, if you will send me a decided answer, yes or no?
38629By the way, would you object to send this and your answer to Hooker to be forwarded to me?
38629Could I have a clean proof to send to Wallace?
38629Could you tell me pretty soon what plants you can give me; and then I shall know what to order?
38629D. to J. D. Hooker._ Down[ 1849- 50?].
38629Darwin to L. Jenyns._[138] Down[ 1845?].
38629Darwin?"
38629Development is a better word, because more close to the cause of the fact?
38629Do n''t you think so?...
38629Do you believe( and I really should like to hear) that God_ designedly_ killed this man?
38629Do you intend to follow out your views, and if so, would you like at some future time to have my few references and notes?
38629Do you not think his having sent me this sketch ties my hands?...
38629Do you recollect how you all tormented me about his beautiful tail?"
38629Do you think any diamond beetle will ever give me so much pleasure as our old friend_ crux- major_?...
38629Does he know at all of the subject of the book?
38629Does not Lyell give some argument about varieties being difficult to keep[ true] on account of pollen from other plants?
38629For how could you influence Jupiter Olympus and make him give three and a half columns to pure science?
38629Have not some men a nice notion of experimentising?
38629He adds that in the case of the author"the restless curiosity of the child to know the''what for?''
38629He and Bernard used to compare their tastes;_ e.g._, in liking brown sugar better than white,& c.; the result being,"We always agree, do n''t we?"
38629He asked me at once,''Shall you bear being told that I want the cabin to myself-- when I want to be alone?
38629He said one day to me,"Why do n''t you give up your fiddle- faddle of geology and zoology, and turn to the occult sciences?"
38629Here I enjoyed five[?]
38629How gets on your book?
38629How is your health?
38629How much time have I lost by illness?"
38629How soon shall I come to you in the morning?
38629I find my old results about the astonishing sensitiveness of the nervous system(!?)
38629I have had a letter telling me that seeds_ must_ have_ great_ power of resisting salt water, for otherwise how could they get to islands''?
38629I send it by the car to- morrow morning; if you make up your mind directly will you send me an answer on the following day by the same means?
38629I suppose you do not know Sir J. Mackintosh''s direction?
38629I then asked him, perhaps with a sneer, whether he thought that the answer of slaves in the presence of their master was worth anything?
38629If not, why should we believe that the variations of domestic animals or plants are preordained for the sake of the breeder?
38629If you do refer to me at any length, can you send me a proof and I will return it to you at once?
38629If you should happen to be_ acquainted_ with the author, for Heaven- sake tell me who he is?
38629In the absence of so accomplished a naturalist, is there any person whom you could strongly recommend?
38629In the first place, at p. 480, it can not surely be said that the most eminent naturalists have rejected the view of the mutability of species?
38629Is it fair to take advantage of my having freely, though unasked, communicated to you my ideas, and thus prevent me forestalling you?"
38629Is it not curious that a plant should be far more sensitive to the touch than any nerve in the human body?
38629Is it on his grandfather''s or his grandmother''s side that the ape ancestry comes in?''
38629Is it so?
38629Is she ought but a pestilent abstraction, like dust cast in our eyes to obscure the workings of an Intelligent First Cause of all?"
38629Is this not curious?
38629It may well be asked how is it possible to reconcile this case with the theory of natural selection?"
38629MY DEAR HOOKER,--What is the good of having a friend, if one may not boast to him?
38629Mr. Leighton goes on,"This greatly roused my attention and curiosity, and I inquired of him repeatedly how this could be done?"
38629My chief puzzle is about the geological specimens-- who will have the charity to help me in describing their mineralogical nature?
38629My difficulty is, why are caterpillars sometimes so beautifully and artistically coloured?
38629Now what think you?
38629Ought not these cases to make one very cautious when one doubts about the use of all parts?
38629Perhaps Darwin told you when at the Cape what he considers the true cause?
38629Rice and peas and_ calavanses_ are excellent vegetables, and, with good bread, who could want more?
38629Secondly, can you advise me whether I had better state what terms of publication I should prefer, or first ask him to propose terms?
38629Share profits, or what?
38629This is the true way to solve a problem?
38629Thus he wrote to Sir J. D. Hooker( 1847?
38629Two questions naturally occur to one:( 1)--When and how did Darwin become convinced that species are mutable?
38629We all admit development as a fact of history: but how came it about?
38629We all laughed heartily over some of the sentences.... Who can it be?
38629What are her image and attributes, when dragged from her wordy lurking- place?
38629What is Erasmus''s direction?
38629What is the dose?
38629What makes a tuft of feathers come on a cock''s head, or moss on a moss- rose?
38629What on earth shall you do with your boys?
38629What was the reason that a Naturalist was not long ago fixed upon?
38629When a sentence became hopelessly involved, he would ask himself,"now what_ do_ you want to say?"
38629Where did you go, and what did you do and are doing?
38629Who can the author be?
38629Who is she?
38629Will you be kind enough to write to me one line by_ return of post_, saying whether you are now at Cambridge?
38629Will you think over this, and some time, either by letter or when we meet, tell me what you think?...
38629Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey''s mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?
38629Would it do to send my tax- cart early in the morning, on a day that was not frosty, lining the cart with mats, and arriving here before night?
38629Would it not be better at least to share the £ 72 8s.?
38629Would not the Zoological Society be the best place?
38629Would there be purpose if the lowest organisms alone, destitute of consciousness, existed in the moon?
38629You idle old wretch, why have you not answered my last letter, which I am sure I forwarded to Clifton nearly three weeks ago?
38629[ 123] In 1860 he wrote to Lyell:"Is not Krohn a good fellow?
38629[ 209] In a letter to Mr. Huxley my father wrote:--"Have you seen the last_ Saturday Review_?
38629[ 224] Does it not hurt your Yankee pride that we thrash you so confoundedly?
38629[ 291] Pray tell me whether anything has been published on this subject?
38629[ Down, 1847?]
38629and the''how?''
38629the''why?''
5799Aged Botanist?
5799Books? 5799 Kennst ihn du wohl?"
5799Well,[ said Huxley],"have you been voting for C.?"
5799What is honour? 5799 Why do n''t you want to grow up?"
5799--typical of the century?
5799--typical of the century?
5799--typical of the century?
5799--typical of the century?
5799And if it has, could it find out something about the writer of the letters I enclose?
5799And where, I should like to know, is a glimmer of a scintilla of a hint that the missionary was a dissenter?
5799And why the double deuce are about three- quarters of the genera huddled together in Japan and northern China?
5799Apropos of naval portrait gallery, can you tell me if there is a portrait of old John Richardson anywhere extant?
5799Are there no science classes in Southampton?
5799Are you and Mrs. Knowles going to imitate the example of Eginhard and Emma?
5799Are you minded to admit a goring article into the February"Nineteenth"?
5799Are you minded to take a look at Teneriffe?
5799As for your criticisms, do n''t you know that I am become a reactionary and secret friend of the clerics?
5799But of course you expect this, for if it is unbearably sunny in London what must it be here?
5799But what is a man to do if his friends take advantage of his absence, and go giving him gold medals behind his back?
5799But who in the world is to say how the x will turn out, before the real strain begins?
5799By the way, can you help us over the University business?
5799By the way, do you see the"Times"has practically climbed down about the Royal Society-- came down backwards like a bear, growling all the time?
5799By the way, has the Bishop published his speech or sermon?
5799By the way, is there any type- writer who is to be trusted in Oxford?
5799Can I see it some day?
5799Can you tell me what I shall have to do in the dim and distant future?
5799Could you come and dine with us at 4 P.M. on Thursday?
5799Could you put in an excuse on account of influenza?
5799Dear Grandpater, Have you seen a Waterbaby?
5799Dear Sir, I understand that you ask me what I think about"alcohol as a stimulant to the brain in mental work"?
5799Did it wonder if it could get out?
5799Did n''t I see somewhere that you had been made Poor Law pope, or something of the sort?
5799Did you ever read Henry George''s book"Progress and Poverty"?
5799Did you not say to me,"sitting by a sea- coal fire"( I say nothing about a"parcel gilt goblet"), that this screed was to be the"last word"?
5799Did you put it in a bottle?
5799Do n''t you think you had better apply at once?
5799Do you remember how you scolded me for being too speculative in my maiden lecture on Animal Individuality forty odd years ago?
5799Do you see any chance of educating the white corpuscles of the human race to destroy the theological bacteria which are bred in parsons?
5799Do you see that the American Association of Authors has adopted a Resolution, which is a complete endorsement of my view of the stamp- swindle?
5799Edison, typical of the century?
5799Has not"muscardine"been substituted for"pebrine"?
5799Have not Lady Hooker and you yet learned that a large country house is of all places the most detestable in cold weather?
5799Have you considered that State Socialism( for which I have little enough love) may be a product of Natural Selection?
5799He just looked up boldly, straight at me, as much as to say,''What do YOU mean by ordering me about?''
5799He writes again to Sir M. Foster, January 8, 1893:--] What am I to do about the meeting about Owen''s statue on the 21st?
5799How about the Bill?
5799How about"The Politics of the Imagination: Liberty and Inequality"?
5799How does he know that what he saw was a snake?
5799How is that to be transacted whether as in- patient or out- patient at Firdale?
5799How much time is there before the wind- up of the Challenger?
5799How''s a''wi''you?
5799Huxley was popularly supposed to hold the same views as Mr. Spencer-- for were they not both Evolutionists?
5799I looked at it, and seeing it bore the signature of Professor Huxley, I replied,"Certainly I will; but why do you ask for it?"
5799I read all about your show-- why not call it"George''s Gorgeous,"tout court?
5799I thought it just a wee little bit, shall I say, bare?
5799I wonder where the sculpture is?
5799If it is published, will you have a copy sent to him?
5799If so, should not the President and Council take some notice of his death and delegate some one to the funeral to represent them?
5799If there are any letters kicking about for us, will you ask them to send them on?
5799If you ask why the moral inner sense is to be( under due limitations) obeyed; why the few who are steered by it move the mass in whom it is weak?
5799If you have no objection, will you apply to the Council for me for the requisite permission?
5799In other words, does it not become completely absorbed for the sustenance of the body?
5799In this letter he asks, how do we stand prepared for the task thus imperatively set us?
5799Is admission to the awful presence of Her Majesty involved?
5799Is not the formation of the picture a"function"of the piece of glass thus shaped?
5799Is the Mr. Sidgwick who took up the cudgels for me so gallantly in the"St. James''"one of your Sidgwicks?
5799Is there such a thing as a diluted solution of it in the shape of any readable book?")]
5799It''s a great pity; we were such pleasant fellows, were n''t we?
5799My dear Donnelly, And my books-- and watch- dog business generally?
5799My dear Donnelly, Why on earth did I not answer your letter before?
5799My dear Hooker, How''s a''wi''ye''?
5799My dear Hooker, How''s a''wi''you?
5799My dear Hooker, What has happened to the x meeting you proposed?
5799My dear Spencer, You will not have forgotten my bright girl Marian, who married so happily and with such bright prospects half a dozen years ago?
5799My wife and I drove over to Dolgelly yesterday-- do you know it?
5799Need I say that I brought it back again without having had the grace to send a line of thanks?
5799Now, how do I know what the rooks eat?
5799Renan, typical of the century?
5799Shall I have to rig up again in that Court suit, which I hoped was permanently laid up in lavender?
5799Surely the Inspector can not have overlooked such a crucial fact as the presence of other fish in the reservoirs?
5799The prince of scientific expositors, Faraday, was once asked,"How much may a popular lecturer suppose his audience knows?"
5799The question-- How far is this process to go?
5799Under these circumstances, would you mind looking after the x while I am away?
5799What do you think?
5799What has Spencer been trampling on the"Pour le merite"for, when he accepted the Lyncei?
5799What in the world does the Bishop mean by saying that I have called Christianity"sorry stuff"( page 370)?
5799What is the good of use- inheritance, say, in orchids?
5799What is the myth about the Darwin tree in the"Pall Mall"?
5799What is the"Cloister scheme"?
5799What is to be done?
5799When I was a mere boy I took for motto of an essay,"What is honour?
5799When are you going to have an x?
5799Where is the fullest information about distribution of Coniferae?
5799Who hath it?
5799Whoever heard of two biologers getting it one after another?
5799Why do not some of these people who talk about the direct influence of conditions try to explain the structure of orchids on that tack?
5799Why is one to be given a higher rank and vastly greater practical influence than all the rest?
5799Why should not each be a"University Professor"and have his turn on the Senate in influencing the general policy of the University?
5799Why should one specialist represent a whole branch of science better than another, in Council or in Administration?
5799Why the deuce are there no Conifers but Podocarpus and Widringtonias in all Africa south of the Sahara?
5799Why then give their degree a distinguishing mark?
5799Will you allow me to suggest that it might be better not to name any living man?
5799Will you mind running your eye over it?
5799Wo n''t you refer to the Blackmore Museum?
5799Would not"Biological Observatory"serve the turn?
5799You ask( 1), whether the sacramental bread is or is not"voided like other meats"?
5799[ But would not this course of silence leave the mass of the British public believing the statements of the writer?]
5799["From you?"
5799can the geological speculator seek for fame?"
5799if you see no reason to the contrary?
5799suit?
15997Have you put them all right?
15997Look at that one-- is it set out evenly?
15997*****_ 5 Westbourne Grove Terrace, W. January 14[ 1863?
15997*****_ 5 Westbourne Grove Terrace, W. January 31,[ 1865?
15997*****_ Holly House, Barking, E. May 14, 1871._ Dear Darwin,--Have you read that very remarkable book"The Fuel of the Sun"?
15997After stating a number of practical examples he continues: The question forces itself upon every thinking mind-- Why are these things so?
15997Again, as to the saline solution without nitrogen, would not the air supply what was required?
15997Also, I want to know whether your_ female_ mimetic butterfly is more beautiful and brighter than the male?
15997Am I not right in inferring that this must have been introduced and run wild?
15997Are either of these more worthy of reward on that account than the others?
15997Are not you mistaken about the Sphagnum?
15997August 16,[ 1868?
15997August 30,[ 1868?
15997But can you account for the males not having been rendered equally brilliant and equally protected?
15997But do you think these things are of much importance?
15997But suppose beforehand they all know or suspect that those who say"Not guilty"will be punished and the rest rewarded: what is likely to be the result?
15997By the way, did Mr. Youmans, of the United States, apply to you to write a popular sketch of Natural Selection?
15997By the way, have you read Tylor and Lecky?
15997By what means, then, did illegitimate unions ever become sterile?
15997Can he draw( not copy)?
15997Can he make anything?
15997Can he saw a piece of board straight?
15997Can he saw a piece of wood straight?
15997Can he speak French?
15997Can he walk twenty miles a day?
15997Can you really change your opinion and belief, for the hope of reward or the fear of punishment?
15997Can you tell me positively that black jaguars or leopards are believed generally or always to pair with black?
15997Did you think they were too obvious?
15997Do they not teach us something of the system of nature?
15997Do you intend to follow out your views, and if so would you like at some future time to have my few references and notes?
15997Do you make any progress with your Journal of travels?
15997Do you not admire our friend Miss Buckley''s admirable article in_ Macmillan_?
15997Does he write a good hand?
15997Farewell: I hope that you find Dorking a pleasant place?
15997February 22,[ 1868?
15997For, where could the rich lowland_ equatorial_ flora have existed during a period of general refrigeration sufficient for this?
15997Have you a photograph of yourself of any kind you can send me?
15997Have you changed your house to Westbourne Grove?
15997Have you ever tried a stereograph taken with the camera only the distance apart of the eyes?
15997Have you ever tried mountain air?
15997Have you not found it so in the Malay Archipelago?
15997Have you the report published at Nottingham in a volume by Dr. Robertson?
15997How can this be, if there is no disinclination to crossing?
15997How could sexual selection produce them?
15997How did he obtain his insight into the closest secrets of nature?
15997How does your Journal get on?
15997How is it that they do their work so much more thoroughly than the Protestant missionaries?
15997How, then, can it be meritorious?
15997I have many other copies at your disposal; and I sent two to your friend Dr. Davies(?
15997I should like to know whether he can live on rice and salt fish for a week on occasion.... Can he sleep on a board?...
15997I suppose that you do not care enough about the subject to like to see what he has written?
15997I suppose you have read Lubbock?
15997I wonder whether you attribute the odoriferous and sound- producing organs, when confined to the males, to their greater vigour, etc.?
15997I. you write lond_i_acus: is this not an error?
15997If Natural Selection can_ not_ do this, how do species ever arise, except when a variety is isolated?
15997If so, would it not take part in the formation of all mould?
15997If you are able to bear reading, will you allow me to take the liberty of recommending you a book?
15997If you have a clear opinion on this head, may I quote you?
15997In which directions did he most influence his age?
15997Is it not a lovely country?
15997Is it not probable that Natural Selection can accumulate these variations and thus save the species?
15997Is the case of parrots fed on fat of fish turning colour mentioned in your Travels?
15997Is the orang polygamous?
15997Is your essay on Variation in Man to be a supplement to your volume on Domesticated Animals and Cultivated Plants?
15997January 30, 1869._ Dear Darwin,--Will you tell me_ where_ are Fleeming Jenkin''s arguments on the importance of single variation?
15997March 24,[ 1868?
15997My difficulty is, why are caterpillars sometimes so beautifully and artistically coloured?
15997No single case is known of a male Papilio, Pieris, Diadema( or any other insect?)
15997Not only in latter cases currents of sea are absent, but what is there to make birds fly direct from one alpine summit to another?
15997Nothing would please me more than to find evidence of males selecting the more attractive females[?
15997Our aristocracy is handsomer?
15997P.S.--Have you seen Mr. Farrer''s article in the last_ Fortnightly_?
15997Page 315: Do you not mean the horns of the moose?
15997September 5,[ 1868?
15997Shall we have the pleasure of seeing you there?
15997Some no doubt may be deep- seated, and would imply organic differences; but can you tell beforehand which these are?
15997Something ought to be done-- but what is to rule?
15997Take for instance the two peculiar orchids of the Azores( Habinaria species): what other mode of transit is conceivable?
15997The argument,"Why have n''t other allied animals been modified in the same way?"
15997The sterility is a most[?
15997To every thoughtful naturalist the question must arise, What are these for?
15997Under the old regime they never had an editor above mediocrity, except Masson(?
15997What do you say to the peculiar_ Felis_ there?
15997What do you think of putting C. Wright''s article as an appendix to the new edition of the"Origin"?
15997What do you think of the Duke of Argyll''s criticisms, and the more pretentious one in the last number of the_ North British Review_?
15997What have they to do with the great laws of creation?
15997What is known of his inner life?
15997What was the extent of his contributions to our stock of human knowledge?
15997What would be the use of accumulating materials which one could not have time to work up?
15997When do you mean returning for good?
15997Who and what manner of man was Alfred Russel Wallace?
15997Who were his forbears?
15997Why are men of science so dreadfully afraid to say what they think and believe?
15997Will Müller''s book on it be translated?
15997Will not that be a hard nut for you when you come to treat in detail on geographical distribution?
15997Will you be so good as to forward him the enclosed note begging for a little information?
15997Will you have the kindness to turn this in your mind?
15997Will you kindly inform me?
15997Will you think over this, and some time, either by letter or when we meet, tell me what you think?
15997Would Owen thus speak of himself?
15997Would it not be a good thing to send your List of Queries to some of the Bombay and Calcutta papers?
15997Would you like to see the specimens of pupà ¦ of butterflies whose colours have changed in accordance with the colour of the surrounding objects?
15997You must give me proofs that I am wrong or show that the evidence I have heard is false, and then I may change my belief"?
15997[ 68] Is not this most extraordinary and a puzzler?
15997[?]
15997and also the decay of the roots of grasses and of all annual plants, or do you suppose that_ all_ these are devoured by worms?
15997on Lyell''s"Principles"?
15997who are you?"
15997will one male impregnate more than one female?
5226Codfish?
5226Do you still believe in Gladstone?
5226Is it not provoking,[ he writes to his wife,]"that we should all be dislocated when I should have been so glad to show him a little attention?"
5226Please, teacher,asks one of these,"what business was it that Jesus had to do for His father Joseph?
5226What have I done to deserve this?
52264 Marlborough Place, London, N.W., July 5[ 1881?].
5226Am I to do anything or nothing?
5226And apropos of that, how is your own particular brain?
5226And if such a man should come to the front what chance is there of his receiving loyal and continuous support from a majority of the House of Commons?
5226And why do n''t you send Madame''s photograph that you have promised?
5226And, if it was not, did He not deserve to be punished?"
5226Andes: 27: 0(?)
5226Another, of British origin this time, was from a man who had to read a paper before a local Literary Society on the momentous question,"Where are we?"
5226As to coming back a"new man,"who knows what that might be?
5226Boy.--Please, teacher, if Joseph was not Jesus''father and God was, why did Mary say,"Thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing"?
5226Boy.--Then Mary did n''t know God was Jesus''father?
5226But what am I to do?
5226But what in the world is to be done?
5226By the way, did you ever read that preposterous and immoral story carefully?
5226Can not we arrange some other day?
5226Can not you get as much done in Manchester?
5226Can you come and dine on Tuesday next( 12) at 7?
5226Can you recommend me any one?
5226Can you supply it?
5226Could n''t you let us have your gardener''s cottage?
5226Could not somebody be got to persuade him to put what he has to say in black and white?
5226Could we not meet there?
5226Did I tell you that I carried all my resolutions about improving the medical curriculum?
5226Did ever a poor devil of a Government have such a subordinate before?
5226Did you notice how handsome the young men are and how little beauty there is among the women?
5226Did you see the"Devonshire man''s"attack in the"Pall Mall?"
5226Do you know anything about Chrystal of St. Andrews?
5226Do you mean to have a portrait of each of your men?
5226Do you see how Evolution is getting made into a bolus and oiled outside for the ecclesiastical swallow?
5226Do you think I ought to quote Green and Grose''s edition?
5226Do you think that I am"subdued to that I work in,"and like an oyster, carry my brood about beneath my mantle?
5226Does this take your breath away?
5226Had He stopped behind to get a few orders?
5226Have n''t you any suggestions to offer for Anniversary address?
5226Have n''t you done with Babylon yet?
5226Have we a real statesman?
5226Have you anybody in Cambridge who can draw the things from preparations?
5226Have you anything new to tell on that subject?
5226Have you done the gentians of your"Flora Indica"yet?
5226Have you had the"Fortnightly"?
5226Have you not forgotten to mention the leg of Archaeopteryx as a characteristically bird- like structure?
5226Have you talked to Hooker about marine botany?
5226How am I to urge him to do that which, if I were in his place, I should most emphatically refuse to do?
5226How am I?
5226How could God not know where Jesus was?
5226How could He be sorry?
5226How does my painting of the Lilly look?
5226How is it that Dohrn has been and gone?
5226How will you read this scrawl now that Gegenbaur is gone?
5226Huxley was extremely indignant, and wrote home:--] Did you see Lord Shaftesbury''s speech in Tuesday''s"Times?"
5226I feel very well with mine( which are paid for) but they are surely not sensible?
5226I polished off the Salmon Disease pretty fully last year, so what the deuce am I to write about?"
5226I said,''is n''t it better to read a novel before going to bed, instead of worrying your head over a serious book like that?''
5226I think the book was published in 1864, or was it 1866?
5226If she knew her child was God''s son, why was she alarmed about his safety?
5226If this is not caution enough, I should like to know what is?
5226If you are so amiable with three nights, what will you be with three weeks?
5226Is it dyspeps again?
5226Is that fact, or is it not, an evidence of a special Providence and Divine Government?
5226Might it not be better, by the way, to divide the little book into two parts?
5226Milesian, Firbolg, or Cruithneach?
5226My dear Dohrn, Are you married yet or are you not?
5226My dear Mrs. Tyndall, But where is his last note to me?
5226Need I say therefore that the wife is enjoying herself?
5226Now, will you turn all this over in your mind?
5226Part 1.--Life, Literary and Political work, Part 2.--Philosophy, subdividing the latter into chapters or sections?
5226Penny dinners?
5226Picard, Provencal, or Breton?
5226Professor?)
5226Query, is that the effect of tea or baccy?
5226Shall I be welcome?
5226Shall I not see the address?
5226Shall I tell you what your great affliction henceforward will be?
5226Shall you be at home on Monday or Tuesday?
5226The delegation to Sydney is not a bad idea, but why on earth have they arranged that it shall arrive in the middle of the hot weather?
5226The difficulty is, how is this to be done?
5226The great issue, about which hangs a true sublimity, and the terror of overhanging fate, is, what are you going to do with all these things?...
5226The meeting duly took place: and I opened it by asking what was the chief lesson to be drawn from the exhibition?]
5226The truth of the answer to Mallock''s question"Is life worth living?"
5226Was it not an abandonment of the ideal of compulsory education?
5226Was it to lawn tennis and the greater variety of bodily exercises?]
5226Was it true that He had been about Joseph''s business?
5226Was this, it was asked, the way to get Roman Catholic children to the Board schools?
5226What am I to do in the Riviera?
5226What do the sweetest of Editors and the most liberal of Proprietors say ought to be done under the circumstances?
5226What do you say to Ramsay?
5226What if I were to come and look you up in Naples, somewhere in February, as soon as my lectures are over?
5226What is to become of the association if-- is to monopolise it?
5226What put it into your head that I had any doubt of your power of work?
5226What saith the Scripture?
5226What say you?
5226What the deuce was it?
5226What was your motive in getting kicked by a horse?
5226What, therefore, is his authority on the matter-- creation by a Deity-- which can not be tested?
5226When is this infernal war to come to an end?
5226Where are we in Commerce?
5226Where are we in Politics?
5226Where are we in Science?
5226Where are we in Sociology?
5226Where are we in Theology?
5226Who is to be able to make discoveries unless he knows of his own knowledge what has been already made out?
5226Why ca n''t I have the moral courage to come back and say I have n''t seen it?
5226Why the deuce do you live at Brighton?
5226Why, indeed, do they ask for more?
5226Will you be so good as to be my special ambassador with Haeckel and Gegenbauer, and tell them the same thing?
5226Will you come and dine at 6 on Saturday, and talk over the whole business?
5226Will you enlighten him or me, and I will convey the information on?
5226Will you kindly send me a postcard to say where and when it was published?
5226Wist ye not that I must be about my Father''s business?"
5226Wo n''t you change your mind?
5226Would Mr. Cross give him up for purposes of experiment?
5226You do n''t happen to grow gentians in your Alpine region, do you?
5226You will recollect my eldest little daughter?
5226[ he replied,]"that''s a vertebrate, is n''t it?
5226and suppose the child rejoins,"And is it to His father Joseph that he bids us pray when we say Our Father?"
5226or the pure Irish?
5084Is Dr. Faraday here?
5084Now, Professor,she said,"is the cerebellum inside or outside the skull?"
5084What Kingsley do you refer to?
5084What have they to bring forward?
5084Am I to send the"Gardener''s Chronicle"on, and where?
5084And now... shall I be very naughty and make a confession?
5084And the picnic at Scar Bank?
5084And though you ca n''t and wo n''t be an editor yourself, wo n''t you help us and pat us on the back?
5084And what if something still be lost?
5084And when I look back, what do I find to have been the agents of my redemption?
5084Any fragments from the rich man''s table for the next Number of"N.H.R.?"
5084Are you very savage?
5084But if I had to propose to a man to join, and he were to say, Well, what is your object?
5084But to whom to go?
5084But when am I to work them up?
5084But who knows when the great Banker may sweep away table and cards and all, and set us learning a new game?
5084Ca n''t you come up this way as you go to Aberdeen?
5084Can you imagine me holding forth?"
5084Could you identify slices if I were to send you some?
5084Could you let me know?
5084Did I ever send you a letter of mine on the teaching of Natural History?
5084Did I not tell you it was a fine field, and could the land o''cakes give me any scope like this?
5084Did I tell you that I have finally made up my mind to stop in London-- the Government having made it worth my while to continue in Jermyn Street?
5084Did you ever read Littre''s"Life of Comte?"
5084Did you not some time ago tell me that you considered the Y- shaped bone( so- called presphenoid) in the Pike to be the true basisphenoid?
5084Do n''t you think I have been wise in my Hercules choice?
5084Do n''t you think we did a right thing in awarding the Copley Medal to Baer last year?
5084Do you remember how you used to talk to me about choosing a wife?
5084Do you remember it?
5084Do you understand this?
5084Does her ladyship call it a pamphlet?)
5084Has Highly sent your books yet?
5084Has any explanation of them ever been attempted?
5084Have you any objection to putting your name to Flower''s certificate for the Royal Society herewith inclosed?
5084Have you had any letter from Sir Roderick?
5084Have you not other more imperative duties?
5084Have you seen that madcap Tyndall''s letter in the"Times?"
5084Have you seen this quarter''s"Westminster?"
5084Having eaten the food, will you let me have back the dish?
5084He promised, but asked the value of the appointment, and when told, said,"Well, but what''s the use of a hundred a year to him?"
5084How about Oliver?
5084How can I describe to you"Stanley,"the sole town, metropolis, and seat of government?
5084How do we know that Man is not a persistent type?
5084How on earth is a lark to sing for ten minutes together if the air- cells are to be kept distended all the while he is up in the air?
5084How then can the air in any air- cell be kept at a higher tension than the surrounding atmosphere?
5084How then?"
5084I am glad you appreciate the rich absurdities of the new doctrine of spontogenesis[?].
5084I desire therefore rather to knit more firmly than to loosen the old ties, and of these which is older or stronger than ours?
5084I maintain that there ought not in both cases-- I wonder what will be my opinion ten years hence?
5084I remember looking longingly at the notice, and some one said to me,"Why do n''t you go in and try for it?"
5084I terminate my Baccalaureate and take my degree of M.A.-trimony( is n''t that atrocious?)
5084If the expectation of hell hereafter can keep me from evil- doing, surely a fortiori the certainty of hell now will do so?
5084Is it on his grandfather''s or his grandmother''s side that the ape ancestry comes in?"
5084Is this basis of ignorance broad enough for you?
5084June 20.--What have I done in the way of acquiring knowledge since January?
5084May we hope to see you at the meeting of the British Association at Birmingham?
5084Measured by this standard, what becomes of the doctrine of immortality?
5084Now what are your prospects?
5084Oh, Tom, trouble not thyself about sympathy; thou hast two stout legs and young, wherefore need a staff?
5084On November 8, 1870, he read a paper,"Has a Frog a Soul?
5084Sharpey, when I saw him, reminded me, as he always does, of my great contest with Stocks( do you remember throwing the shoe?
5084Since I left England he has married a third wife, and has taken a hand in joining in search of Franklin( which was more dreadful?
5084Sulivan is a fine energetic man, so I suppose if she loves him, well and good, and fancies( is she not a silly woman?)
5084Supposing I could do so, would it be of any use to procure recommendations from them that my papers should be published?
5084That question is, Does the killing a man in the way Mr. Gordon was killed constitute murder in the eye of the law, or does it not?
5084The hope of immortality or of future reward?
5084The interesting question arises, Shall I have a row with the Great O. there?
5084The old man looked at him, and merely remarking,"You''re Huxley, are n''t you?
5084Though I do not see how it follows naturally on the above, still, where can I see a good skeleton of Glareola?
5084Was I acquainted with mechanism, what we call the laws of motion?
5084Was it just, was it right, to demand so great a sacrifice from the woman who had entrusted her future to the uncertain chances of his fortunes?
5084Were you not charmed with Haeckel?
5084What do they do?"
5084What do you say to Sir Philip Egerton coming out in that line?
5084What do you say to standing on your head in the garden for one hour per diem for the next week?
5084What do you think of my looking out for a Professorship of Natural History at Toronto?
5084What have I done with my twenty- sixth year?
5084What think you of his getting married for the third time just before his last expedition?
5084What think you of your grave, scientific brother turning out a ball- goer and doing the"light fantastic"to a great extent?
5084What will become of all my poor counters then?
5084When do you return?
5084When is our plan for getting some kind of meeting during the winter to be organised?
5084When was it otherwise in controversy?
5084Which of us may dare to ask for more?
5084Which, now, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?"
5084Who can be the writer?
5084Why did not Miss Etty send any critical remarks on that subject by the same post?
5084Why does not somebody go to work experimentally, and get at the law of variation for some one species of plant?
5084Why not clip the wings of Pegasus, and descend to the sober, everyday jog- trot after plain bread and cheese like other plain people?
5084Why should I not?
5084Will you be kind enough to give one with my kind regards and remembrances to Dr. Nicholson?
5084Will you come?
5084Will you reconsider the matter?
5084Would he come out as Dr. Fayrer''s guest?
5084Would it be fair to apply to Bell in such a case?
5084Would it not be proper also to write to Sir W. Burnett acquainting him with my views, and requesting his acquiescence and assistance?
5084Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on?
5084You will ask with some wonderment, Why?
5084You will doubtless ask what is the practical outlook of all this?
5084You will naturally think, then,"Why persevere in so hopeless a course?"
5084[ Wilt shape a noble life?
5084[ he writes on May 6,]"ALTON LOCKE Kingsley or Photographic Kingsley?
5084and if so, of what Nature is that Soul?"
5084and was Mr. Eyre actuated by the highest and noblest motives, or was he under the influence of panic- stricken rashness or worse impulses?
5084whether it leads anywhere in the direction of bread and cheese?
12405''Tom,"said my father,"how often have I told you that I have n''t got a drop of liquor in the shanty?
12405''You a trader among the Injuns, an''not keep whisky?"
12405Are you going to ride shanks''horses?
12405Are you going to take the tow- path?
12405Are you going to_ walk_? 12405 Bill,"he continued, turning to his right- hand man,"can you act as guide?"
12405But what do you suppose made them put the provisions in the Alert?
12405Can you discover any fast boats ahead of us, George?
12405Could they? 12405 Could you do it?"
12405Did n''t you notice how disrespectfully he spoke of his father? 12405 Did you catch them with a hook and line?"
12405Did you make the sails yourself, Frank?
12405Did you see any thing of the guns?
12405Dished again, are we?
12405Do it? 12405 Do n''t we gain on him any?"
12405Do you think so?
12405Do you understand managing a sail- boat?
12405Do you want them to discover all our plans, so that they may be ready for us?
12405Has he ever done you any harm?
12405Has n''t he got an orchard or melon- patch that we could visit?
12405Have n''t you heard any thing about it, either?
12405Have they? 12405 Have you caught any thing?"
12405Have you got three or four market- baskets, a clothes- basket, one or two pails, and a salt- bag?
12405He did n''t do it, did he?
12405He would n''t fly off, would he?
12405How are we going to work to get him out?
12405How are you going to hinder it? 12405 How are you going to work it, Frank?"
12405How can we manage that?
12405How do you know? 12405 How does she sail?"
12405How far will it shoot?
12405How will we go to work?
12405I came very near getting the start of you, after all-- didn''t I?
12405I say, Archie, where are you?
12405I say, Frank,said Charles Sheldon,"do n''t you think we can catch you?"
12405I wonder if they thought we would be foolish enough to send the Alert out of this creek, in the face of all those boats?
12405I wonder who that is on the other side of the lake?
12405If we could only go up there, some dark night, and steal his scow, and run her out into the river, and burn her, would n''t he be mad?
12405It would be funny if you should slip up on it, would n''t it?
12405It''s a long shot, is n''t it?
12405Now, boys,said he,"we do n''t intend to disband, do we?"
12405Now, what do you suppose that sloop cost me?
12405Oh, only playin'', was yer?
12405Oh, you begin to back down, do you, you cowards?
12405So I see; but what use can you put them to?
12405That''s the game, is it?
12405That''s your private opinion, expressed here in this public manner, is it?
12405Then how is it that the dogs are here?
12405Then, where''s_ my_ basket?
12405They look nice, do n''t they?
12405They meant to be ready for us, did n''t they?
12405They would, eh? 12405 Wal, if you say so, I wo n''t; but he oughter be larnt better manners-- hadn''t he, Pete?"
12405Was that you shooting up there?
12405Well, Frank, what do you think of him?
12405Well,said Ben, after trying in vain to peer through the darkness,"how do matters stand?
12405Whar are yer goin''?
12405What are in these bags?
12405What are these round things in this bag, I wonder?
12405What are they?
12405What are you trying to do?
12405What boat is that?
12405What business is that of yours?
12405What do you find?
12405What do you mean?
12405What do you mean?
12405What do you propose to do?
12405What do you suppose the smugglers intend to do?
12405What do you think now of the possibility of seeing a fox?
12405What do you think now, Harry?
12405What do you think of them?
12405What if they do?
12405What if they do?
12405What in tarnation is the matter?
12405What is it?
12405What is it?
12405What is to be done now?
12405What luck?
12405What makes you think so?
12405What makes you think so?
12405What makes you think so?
12405What makes you try to throw cold water on all our expectations, in that way?
12405What news?
12405What shall we do?
12405What society?
12405What sort of a boy is he?
12405What sort of fellows do you suppose we are?
12405What''s that?
12405What''s the matter, Uncle Joe?
12405What''s the matter?
12405What''s the reason?
12405What''s the use? 12405 When are they coming?"
12405Where are they? 12405 Where shall we meet?"
12405Where will we have to go to find them in the morning?
12405Where''s the owl?
12405Where''s your companion? 12405 Which is your basket?"
12405Which way is that?
12405Who are they?
12405Who cares for that?
12405Who cares for that?
12405Who is he?
12405Who knows exactly where that strawberry- bed lies? 12405 Why are you?"
12405Why did n''t you do it to- night?
12405Why do n''t you club together, and every time you see one of the Hillers, go to work and thrash him like blazes? 12405 Why does that please you?"
12405Why not?
12405Why will it?
12405Why, do n''t you see?
12405Why, was n''t he jest tryin''to wallop your friend here?
12405Why, you know that day after to- morrow is the Fourth of July, and--"And you have n''t got your fire- works yet?
12405Why,said Julia, in surprise,"I guess that''s Aunt Harriet-- don''t you?"
12405Will yer give a feller a ride?
12405Would n''t it be a better plan for us to meet in the woods, at the back of Mrs. Nelson''s lot? 12405 You are not going home before spring, are you?"
12405You do n''t intend to hurt Lee, do you?
12405You do, eh?
12405You think so, do you?
12405Already he has laid by half that amount; but how is he to get the rest?
12405At length, one of the boys inquired,"What name would you like?"
12405Brave immediately ran to join them, and Harry exclaimed,"I''d like to know what those dogs are doing there?"
12405But is there any hunting around here?"
12405But which way do we go to get home?"
12405Ca n''t twenty fellows whip a dozen?"
12405Did he receive Harry''s letter?"
12405Do you hear that?"
12405Do you think you can comprehend me now?"
12405Frank acknowledged himself to be the person, and James continued,"I suppose she''s the champion yacht, is n''t she?"
12405Had we better try to cross the creek now, or shall we wait until daylight?"
12405How would they go to work?"
12405How would you like to spend an hour with me on the river to- morrow?
12405I s''pose you kind o''thought you had rubbed me out, did n''t you?"
12405I was going to say--""Are you going to keep still,"roared the bully,"or shall I make you?"
12405I wonder how the Sunbeam[ meaning his skiff] would sail?
12405I wonder if we could not have slipped by their police, and reached the island, before they knew it?"
12405If we could represent the buck in the act of upsetting us, it would be our''masterpiece,''would n''t it?
12405If yer_ had_ been, we would n''t a left a grease- spot of yer-- would we, Pete?"
12405In a few moments they reached the fence that ran between the orchard and the meadow, and Archie inquired,"What shall we do now?"
12405In the first place, I suppose, we are all willing to pass part of the day on the river?"
12405Meanwhile Archie was pulling off his clothes, and, when his cousin appeared, he exclaimed,"How do things look down there?
12405Not you the cod I twigged[A] navigating that scow up the creek?"
12405Rather muddy, is n''t it?"
12405Shall we punch him for yer?"
12405Shall we try to cross it now?
12405Should he go back to the house and get assistance?
12405Suppose I shoot at him?"
12405The boys pulled back to the wharf, and Charles continued,"I did n''t think that the Alert would hold all of the refreshments, did you?"
12405The boys then climbed in themselves, and Frank said,"Well, we have captured our first deer, have n''t we?"
12405The smugglers began to grow jubilant over their success, and George called out,"Where are your men- o''-war now?
12405The smugglers remained together, and, as soon as the others were out of hearing, George inquired,"Do you think we can give them the slip?"
12405To Frank''s inquiry,"How do you do, sir?"
12405Uncle Joe suddenly inquired,"Boys, did you bring in your trap that you set for that wild- cat?"
12405We shall be obliged to tack a good many times, going down but we can sail back like a book, and--""Oh, you teach your grandmother, will you?"
12405We shoot consider''ble sharp-- don''t we?"
12405What do you want?"
12405What else should I catch them with?
12405What shall we be called?"
12405What was he to do?
12405What''ll yer be after doing with the boat?"
12405When do you expect her in port?"
12405Where was it?
12405Why do n''t you come down and see a fellow?
12405Will you take it?"
12405he continued, raising his voice so that William could hear;"wait for us at Uncle Mike''s-- will you?"
12405he exclaimed, on noticing the change in the Speedwell''s appearance,"what have you been trying to do with your old scow?"
12405inquired Archie,"You do n''t pretend to say that the''coons are not in the tree?"
12405repeated Harry, with a laugh,"Whoever heard of such a thing?"
12405said Lee;"that alters the case''tirely-- don''t it, Pete?"
2087Why does individual die? 2087 Will Mr. Lyell say that some[ same?]
2087Will this apply to whole organic kingdom when our planet first cooled?
2087( Do you not consider it your duty to be there?)
2087( Shall I?)
2087( whom I liked much), and he asked me"why on earth I instigated you to rob his poultry- yard?''
2087), would you send it any time before you leave England, to the enclosed address?
208713 Sea Houses, Eastbourne,[ July 15th?
208717 Spring Gardens[ October 17?
2087; the result being,"We always agree, do n''t we?"
2087? Quien Sabe?
2087? Quien Sabe?
2087And is he willing to publish my Abstract?
2087And now I should like to know in what one particular are you less of a blackguard than I am?
2087And what do you think would be fair terms for an edition?
2087And where you got it?
2087And why can not you come here afterward and WORK?...
2087Are Arctic plants often apetalous?
2087Are not these a jolly lot of assumptions?
2087Are these new species created by the production, at long intervals, of an offspring different in species from the parents?
2087Are they gradually evolved from some embryo substance?
2087Are you not acting unfairly towards yourself?
2087As for Christ''s, did you ever see such a college for producing Captains and Apostles?
2087As you live on sandy soil, have you lizards at all common?
2087At the end of one of the parts, which was exceedingly impressive, he turned round to me and said, with a deep sigh,''How''s your backbone?''"
2087But as I had not intended to publish any sketch, can I do so honourably, because Wallace has sent me an outline of his doctrine?
2087But have we nowhere any last wreck of a continent, in the midst of the ocean?
2087But may I beg of you one favour, it will be doing me the greatest kindness, if you will send me a decided answer, yes or no?
2087But probably the best answer to those who talk of Darwinism meaning the reign of"chance,"is to ask them what they themselves understand by"chance"?
2087But would you like for me to send the last and perfect revises of the sheets as I correct them?
2087By the way, have you read the article, in the''Edinburgh Review,''on M. Comte,''Cours de la Philosophie''( or some such title)?
2087Can St. Helena be classed, though remotely, either with Africa or S. America?
2087Can you tell me of any good and SPECULATIVE foreigners to whom it would be worth while to send copies of my book, on the''Origin of Species''?
2087Could I have a clean proof to send to Wallace?
2087Could a better reason be given, if I had been asked, by me, for not giving the plants to the British Museum?")
2087Could you give me any idea how many pages of the Journal could probably be spared me?
2087Could you send it me?
2087Darwin?"
2087Did crossing the Acacia do any good?
2087Do they believe that anything in this universe happens without reason or without a cause?
2087Do you believe( and I really should like to hear) that God DESIGNEDLY killed this man?
2087Do you happen to have a SPARE copy of the Nomenclature rules published in the''British Association Transactions?''
2087Do you know Humboldt?
2087Do you know of any other case of an archipelago, with the separate islands possessing distinct representative species?
2087Do you not think his having sent me this sketch ties my hands?...
2087Do you recollect how you all tormented me about his beautiful tail?
2087Do you think any diamond beetle will ever give me so much pleasure as our old friend crux major?...
2087Does he know at all of the subject of the book?
2087Does he mark varieties?
2087Down, April 7th[ 1847?].
2087Down, January 1st[ 1857?].
2087Down,[ 1845?].
2087Down,[ June?]
2087Down[ 1844?].
2087Down[ 1847?].
2087Has not Koch published a good German Flora?
2087Have not some men a nice notion of experimentising?
2087Have you a good set of mountain barometers?
2087Have you any good evidence for absence of insects in small islands?
2087Have you ever done anything of this kind, or have you ever studied Gloger''s or Brehm''s works?
2087Have you ever kept any odd breeds of rabbits, and can you give me any details?
2087Have you ever thought on this point?
2087Have you not found it so in the Malay Archipelago?
2087Have you read''Cosmos''yet?
2087Have you the''Phytologist,''and could you sometime spare it?
2087He asked me at once,"Shall you bear being told that I want the cabin to myself-- when I want to be alone?
2087Here I enjoyed five[?]
2087Hooker( 1847?
2087How about Andersson in Sweden?
2087How can I apologise enough for all my presumption and the extreme length of this letter?
2087How is Henslow getting on?
2087How much time have I lost by illness?"
2087How should you like to be suddenly debarred from seeing every person and place, which you have ever known and loved, for five years?
2087How soon shall I come to you in the morning?
2087I dare say you will have thought of measuring exactly the width of any dikes at the top and bottom of any great cliff( which was done by Mr. Searle[?]
2087I had formerly some wild cabbage seeds, which I gave to some one, was it to you?
2087I have almost made up my mind to reject the rule of priority in this case; would you grudge the trouble to send me your opinion?
2087I have had a good deal of correspondence about this matter[ with Henslow?
2087I have had a letter telling me that seeds MUST have GREAT power of resisting salt water, for otherwise how could they get to islands?
2087I have one question to ask: Would it be any good to send a copy of my book to Decaisne?
2087I in one haul of my net took five distinct species; is this not quite extraordinary?...
2087I must get you to introduce me to him; would he be a good and sociable man for Dropmore?
2087I never perceived anything of it, have you?
2087I ought to be ashamed to trouble you so much, but will you SEND ONE LINE to inform me?
2087I quite agree on the little occasional intermigration between lands[ islands?]
2087I read and re- read Humboldt; do you do the same?
2087I remember how strongly I answered, and I presume you wanted to know what I should feel; whoever would have dreamed of your being so crafty?
2087I send it by the car to- morrow morning; if you make up your mind directly will you send me an answer on the following day by the same means?
2087I shall order Bentham; is it not a pity that you should waste time in tabulating varieties?
2087I should EXTREMELY like to see your reasons published in detail, for it"riles"me( this is a proper expression, is it not?)
2087I suppose you do not know Sir J. Mackintosh''s direction?
2087I then asked him, perhaps with a sneer, whether he thought that the answer of slaves in the presence of their master was worth anything?
2087I was so ignorant I do not even know there were three varieties of Dorking fowl: how do they differ?...
2087If I did publish a short sketch, where on earth should I publish it?
2087If not, why should we believe that the variations of domestic animals or plants are preordained for the sake of the breeder?
2087In South America to the east, the non- volcanic[ Silla?]
2087In the absence of so accomplished a naturalist, is there any person whom you could strongly recommend?
2087Is it fair to take advantage of my having freely, though unasked, communicated to you my ideas, and thus prevent me forestalling you?"
2087Is it not possible that the same circumstances which have preserved the vegetation in situ, should have preserved drifted plants?
2087Is it not so with Cryptogamic plants; have not most of the species wide ranges, in those genera which are mundane?
2087Is it not the case that sailors are prone to settle in domestic and quiet habits?
2087Is it not the only island in the Atlantic which is not volcanic?
2087Is it so?
2087Is not that grand?
2087Is not this a prospect to keep up the most flagging spirit?
2087Is there any breed of Delamere forest ponies?
2087Is there not some grand Russian Flora, which perhaps has varieties marked?
2087Is this not beautiful?
2087Is your Introduction fairly finished?
2087It is simply expressed in a letter to Falconer( 1863?
2087July 14th[ 1857?].
2087Might not this possibly have been the case with the flukes in their early state?
2087Moor Park, Farnham[ April(?)
2087Mr. Leighton goes on,"This greatly roused my attention and curiosity, and I enquired of him repeatedly how this could be done?"
2087My chief puzzle is about the geological specimens-- who will have the charity to help me in describing their mineralogical nature?
2087My old Gyp, Impey, was astounded to hear that he was my son, and very simply asked,"Why, has he been long married?"
2087Now what think you?
2087One other question: You used to keep hawks; do you at all know, after eating a bird, how soon after they throw up the pellet?
2087Or are the species so created produced without parents?
2087Or do they suddenly start from the ground, as in the creation of the poet?...
2087Or would the tendency be to record the varieties about equally in genera of all sizes?
2087P.S.--When will you return to Kew?
2087Perhaps Darwin told you when at the Cape what he considers the true cause?
2087Pray tell me what you think?
2087Rice and peas and calavanses are excellent vegetables, and, with good bread, who could want more?
2087SOMETIME( when you are better) I should like very much to hear a little about your"Little Call Duck"; why so- called?
2087Secondly, can you advise me, whether I had better state what terms of publication I should prefer, or first ask him to propose terms?
2087Share profits, or what?
2087Shrewsbury[ 1845?].
2087Sir P. Egerton has, I believe, some quite thoroughbred chestnut horses; have any of them the spinal stripe?
2087There have been shot also five Waxen Chatterers, three of which Shaw has for sale; would you like to purchase a specimen?
2087To a NON- BOTANIST the chalk has the most peculiar aspect of any flora in England; why will you not come here to make your observations?
2087Urge the use of the dredge in the Tropics; how little or nothing we know of the limit of life downward in the hot seas?
2087Was it through final causes to keep the plants warm?
2087What do you say to the peculiar Felis there?
2087What is Erasmus''s direction?
2087What is the dose?
2087What on earth shall you do with your boys?
2087What think you?
2087What was the reason that a Naturalist was not long ago fixed upon?
2087When a sentence got hopelessly involved, he would ask himself,"now what DO you want to say?"
2087Where did you go, and what did you do and are doing?
2087Why should Naturalists append their own names to new species, when Mineralogists and Chemists do not do so to new substances?
2087Why?
2087Will not this account for the odd genera with few species which stand between great groups, which we are bound to consider the increasing ones?"
2087Will you be kind enough to write to me one line by RETURN OF POST, saying whether you are now at Cambridge?
2087Will you keep this address?
2087Will you perfect your assistance by further considering, for a little, the subject this way?
2087Will you so far oblige me by occasionally thinking over this?
2087Will you turn this in your head when, if ever, you have leisure?
2087Will you turn this in your mind?
2087Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey''s mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?
2087Would it not be better at least to share the 72 pounds 8 shillings?
2087Would it not be well in the Alpine plants to append the very same addition which you have now sent me in MS.?
2087Would not this have been a fine excursion, and in sixteen months I should have been with you all?
2087Would there be purpose if the lowest organisms alone, destitute of consciousness existed in the moon?
2087Would you believe it credible?
2087Would you give such men medals?
2087You idle old wretch, why have you not answered my last letter, which I am sure I forwarded to Clifton nearly three weeks ago?
2087Your remarks on the distinctness( so unpleasant to me) of the Himalayan Rubi, willows, etc., compared with those of northern[ Europe?
2087and all other good friends of dear Cambridge?
2087and do you know any philosophical botanists on the Continent, who read English and care for such subjects?
2087and what it is like?...
2087at the door, and he got together quite a party-- Robert Brown, who is gone to Paris and Auvergne, Macleay[?]
2087or"?."
2087published several years ago the view of distribution of animals in the Malay Archipelago, in relation to the depth of the sea between the islands?
2088), showing profound contempt of me?... 2088 Do you remember telling me that I ought to study Phyllotaxy?
2088How can water injure the leaves if indeed this is at all the case?
2088Lord Mayor.--Probably the clergyman of the parish might exert some influence over them? 2088 MUST YOU NOT ASSUME A PRIMEVAL CREATIVE POWER WHICH DOES NOT ACT WITH UNIFORMITY, OR HOW COULD MAN SUPERVENE?"
2088Will England play this part? 2088 ( Do you mean LIVING naturalists?) 2088 ( In a letter to Mr. Huxley my father wrote:Have you seen the last"Saturday Review"?
2088), and I like it much; but did you ever see a book so badly arranged?
2088); is the paging right, namely, 1, 2, 3?
2088... Have you seen the splendid essay and notice of my book in the"Times"?
2088... What will become of my book on Variation?
20881853?
20881854?
20881870?
20881874?
2088Again, are bloo- protected plants common on your DRY western plains?
2088All that you say seems very sensible, but could a review in the strict sense of the word be filled with readable matter?
2088Also do you know from your own observation that the limbs of sheep imported into the West Indies change colour?
2088And now, can you advise me how to make soil approximately free of all the substances which plants naturally absorb?
2088Are such plants commoner in warm than in colder climates?
2088Are the IMPERFECT flowers of your Specularia the early or the later ones?
2088Are there any bloo- protected leaves or fruit in the Arctic regions?
2088Are they brightly coloured kinds?
2088Are you inclined to aid me on the mere chance of success, for without your aid I could do hardly anything?"]
2088Are you sure that the Hive- bee is the cutter?
2088As an account of the movement, I shall allude to what I suppose is Oncidium, to make CERTAIN,--is the enclosed flower with crumpled petals this genus?
2088But does not the difficulty rest much on our silently assuming that we know more than we do?
2088But how is it in the conjugation of Confervae-- is not one of the two individuals here in fact male, and the other female?
2088But of what avail is his honest speech, if ignorance is the assessor of the judge, and prejudice the foreman of the jury?
2088CARD PLAYING?
2088CHESS?
2088COLOURING?
2088COMPLETENESS?
2088Can aquatic plants, being confined to a small area or small community of individuals, require more free crossing, and therefore have separate sexes?
2088Can you give me any light?
2088Can you let me have it soon, with those confounded dashes over the vowels put in carefully?
2088Can you pay us a visit, early in December?...
2088Can you spare time for a line to our dear Mrs. Cameron?
2088Can you suggest any plan?
2088Can you tell me whether you believe further or more firmly than you did at first?
2088Can you throw any light on this?
2088Chief omissions?
2088Colour of hair?
2088Conducive to health or otherwise?
2088Conducive to or restrictive of habits of observation?
2088Could you spare me a photograph of yourself?
2088Could you tell me pretty soon what plants you can give me; and then I shall know what to order?
2088DEFINITION?
2088Development is a better word, because more close to the cause of the fact?
2088Did you ever hear of her?
2088Did you perceive the argumentum ad hominem Huxley about kangaroo and bear?
2088Did you read a review in a late''Edinburgh?''
2088Do n''t you think so?
2088Do the Tineina or other small Moths suck Flowers, and if so what Flowers?
2088Do the introduced hive- bees replace any other insect?
2088Do they belong to the same species?
2088Do you intend to follow out your views, and if so, would you like at some future time to have my few references and notes?
2088Do you know who?"
2088Do you know''Silas Marner''?
2088Do you not think you ought to have the age of the answerer?
2088Do your scientific tastes appear to have been innate?
2088Does Bentham progress at all?
2088Does it not hurt your Yankee pride that we thrash you so confoundedly?
2088Does not Lyell give some argument about varieties being difficult to keep[ true] on account of pollen from other plants?
2088Does the Berlin Academy of Sciences send their Proceedings to Honorary Members?
2088Does yours?
2088Down, 24[ December 1873?].
2088Down, December 17[ 1860?].
2088Down, December 28[ 1866?].
2088Down, February 22,[ 1867?].
2088Down, February 22[ 1869?].
2088Down, January 6th[ 1860]?
2088Down, July 30th,[ 1860?].
2088Down, May 27,[ 1865?].
2088Down, November 2[ 1865?].
2088Down, September 17[ 1861?].
2088Down,[ 1875?].
2088Down,[ April] 23?
2088Down,[ January 4th?
2088Down,[ January?]
2088Down,[ May?]
2088EDUCATION?
2088ENERGY OF BODY, ETC.?
2088ENERGY OF MIND, ETC.?
2088EXTENT OF FIELD OF VIEW?
2088FURNITURE?
2088Farewell, shall you be at Oxford?
2088For do you not now begin to doubt whether you can conquer and hold them?
2088For how could you influence Jupiter Olympius and make him give three and a half columns to pure science?
2088GEOGRAPHY?
2088GEOMETRY?
2088HEALTH?
2088HEIGHT, ETC?
2088Has he a copy?
2088Has the problem of the later stages of reduction of useless structures ever perplexed you?
2088Has the religious creed taught in your youth had any deterrent effect on the freedom of your researches?
2088Has this been observed?
2088Has this fact been observed with more than one species?
2088Have not some Australian extinct forms been lately found in Australia?
2088Have you begun it?...
2088Have you ever read Huxley''s little book of Lectures?
2088Have you finished it?
2088Have you had time for any Natural History?...
2088Have you had time to read poor dear Henslow''s life?
2088Have you kept them tame?
2088Have you read the''Woman in White''?
2088Have you seen Wollaston''s attack in the''Annals''?
2088Have you seen the"Reader"?
2088He adds that in the case of the author"the restless curiosity of the child to know the''what for?''
2088Here is another point; have you any toucans?
2088Hooker says you did; where is it?
2088Hooker:] Dear Sir, Will you excuse my venturing to ask you a question, to which no one''s answer but your own would be quite satisfactory?
2088How about photographs?
2088How absurd that logical quibble--"if species do not exist, how can they vary?"
2088How could a complex organisation profit a monad?
2088How could the wind, which is the agent of fertilisation, with Plantago, fertilise"reciprocally dimorphic"flowers like Primula?
2088How does your book on plants brew in your mind?
2088How gets on your book?
2088How is your health?
2088How shall you manage to allude to your New Zealand and Tierra del Fuego work?
2088How taught?
2088I constantly asked myself, would a stranger care for this?
2088I dare say I have not been guarded enough, but might not the term inferiority include less perfect adaptation to physical conditions?
2088I find my old results about the astonishing sensitiveness of the nervous system(!?
2088I have been trying a good many experiments with heated water... Should you not call the following case one of heat rigor?
2088I never knew that he wrote in the"Saturday"; and was it not an odd chance?"
2088I suppose that there are no organic fluids which plants would absorb, and which I could procure?
2088I suppose white silver sand, sold for cleaning harness, etc., is nearly pure silica, but what am I to do for alumina?
2088ILLUMINATION?
2088INDEPENDENCE OF JUDGMENT?
2088If you should happen to be ACQUAINTED with the author, for Heaven- sake tell me who he is?
2088In the first place, at page 480, it can not surely be said that the most eminent naturalists have rejected the view of the mutability of species?
2088Indeed, any dried dimorphic plants would be gratefully received... Did my Lythrum paper interest you?
2088Is a shudder akin to the rigor or shivering before fever?
2088Is it not also a difficulty that quadrupeds appear to recognise plants more by their[ scent] than their appearance?
2088Is it not curious that a plant should be far more sensitive to the touch than any nerve in the human body?
2088Is it not humiliating to be thus killed by a man of eighty- six, who evidently never dreamed that he was killing me?
2088Is not this latter case heat rigor?
2088Is not this marvellous?
2088Is not your feeling a remnant of the deeply impressed one on all our minds, that a species is an entity, something quite distinct from a variety?
2088Is she aught but a pestilent abstraction, like dust cast in our eyes to obscure the workings of an Intelligent First Cause of all?"
2088Is there any analogous term used by German breeders of animals?
2088Is there any truth in this fact generally?
2088Is this not curious?
2088July 12,[ 1865?].
2088MECHANISM?
2088MEMORY?
2088MILITARY MOVEMENTS?
2088March 23,[ 1870?].
2088Might I ask, if you succeed in discovering what the creatures are, you would have the great kindness to inform me?
2088Moreover, as you say, higher forms might be occasionally degraded, the snake Typhlops SEEMS(?!)
2088My dear Hooker, What is the good of having a friend, if one may not boast to him?
2088My difficulty is, why are caterpillars sometimes so beautifully and artistically coloured?
2088My question is-- Do you know of any solid substance in the cells of plants which glycerine and water dissolves?
2088NUMERALS?
2088Now can you tell me, does S. perfoliata close its flower like S. speculum, with angular inward folds?
2088Now will you grant me this favour?
2088Now, with your ease in writing, and with knowledge at your fingers''ends, do you not think you could write a popular Treatise on Zoology?
2088O solidite de l''esprit francais, que devene- vous?"]
2088ORIGINALITY OR ECCENTRICITY?
2088Or is this all rubbish?
2088Ought not these cases to make one very cautious when one doubts about the use of all parts?
2088P.S.--Is not Harvey in the class of men who do not at all care for generalities?
2088PERSONS?
2088POLITICS?
2088Peculiar merits?
2088Pray tell me whether anything has been published on this subject?
2088RELIGION?
2088SCENERY?
2088SPECIAL TALENTS?
2088STRONGLY MARKED MENTAL PECULIARITIES, BEARING ON SCIENTIFIC SUCCESS, AND NOT SPECIFIED ABOVE?
2088STUDIOUSNESS?
2088September 10,[ 1866?].
2088September 10,[ 1867?].
2088Should you think it too much trouble to send me a title FOR THE CHANCE?
2088TEMPERAMENT?
2088Talking of medals, has Falconer had the Royal?
2088Tell me, was Lyell pleased?
2088The following strongly expressed opinion about it may be worth quoting:--"Have you read Buckle''s second volume?
2088The public may well say, if such a man dare not or will not speak out his mind, how can we who are ignorant form even a guess on the subject?
2088Through what trials and sore contests the civilised world will have to pass in the course of this new reformation, who can tell?
2088WILL YOU DO ME THE GREAT KINDNESS TO CONSIDER THIS WELL?
2088Was Wallace pleased?
2088Was it Cycas pectinata?
2088Was there ever such a monster seen before?
2088We all admit development as a fact of history: but how came it about?
2088Were they determined by any and what events?
2088What am I to think of this.?...
2088What are her image and attributes, when dragged from her wordy lurking- place?
2088What makes a tuft of feathers come on a cock''s head, or moss on a moss- rose?
2088What sexual differences are there in monkeys?
2088What was the date of publication: December 1859, or January 1860?
2088When will peace come?
2088Who can it be?
2088Who can say to which of these causes to attribute the several plants with heath- like foliage at the Cape of Good Hope?
2088Who can the author be?
2088Who is she?
2088Will he read my book?
2088Will you give me one for this purpose?
2088Will you give us one line about the whales?
2088Will you have the kindness to turn this in your mind?
2088Will you provisionally give me permission to reprint your article as a shilling pamphlet?
2088Will you think over this, and some time, either by letter or when we meet, tell me what you think?
2088Would it do to send my tax- cart early in the morning, on a day that was not frosty, lining the cart with mats, and arriving here before night?
2088Would not the Zoological Society be the best place?
2088Yet why do deaf men generally keep their mouths open?
2088[ 1865?].
2088[ February?
2088[ May 31, 1863?].
2088[ On the same subject he wrote to Sir Joseph Hooker in August 1862:--"Is Oliver at Kew?
2088a good fellow?
2088and the''how?''
2088and''Cornhill?''
2088be so kind as to send one more?
2088in the new''Fraser''?
2088in the same flower] yet receive influence from other plants?
2088one of the Epidendreae?!
2088or have I dreamed it?
2088publish some paper on the subject?
2088published?
2088so that some of the difficulty is removed; and is it not satisfactory that my hypothetical notions should have led to pretty discoveries?
2088the''why?''
2088very early or very late?
2088will one male impregnate more than one female?
23497A hundred feet long?
23497A six- footer? 23497 Ai n''t it clean now?"
23497And I says to him, sir,` Bill Cross,''I says,` if I tars myself black, will you let me come with you and be your man Friday?''
23497And after that, uncle?
23497And on the ground?
23497And what did he say to that?
23497And you followed our boat?
23497And you''re going to let me take you in to Belize?
23497And you''ve come to offer your services?
23497Are there?
23497Are you ashore?
23497Are you going to cut out the arrow head?
23497Are you sure he said that, Pete?
23497Are you sure?
23497Asleep? 23497 Back?
23497But did you not see the boat? 23497 But do n''t you see that we can go no farther?"
23497But do you mean to say you''ve seen some of the beautiful trogons?
23497But how about that there big cat, sir? 23497 But how are you going to get it down the falls?"
23497But suppose a whole tribe of Indians attack us?
23497But suppose we have to swim, sir?
23497But that mournful howl, uncle?
23497But those two poor fellows?
23497But when you''ve eaten all your stores, what then, doctor?
23497But where did he come up?
23497But where''s that rope?
23497But why did n''t you shout, Pete?
23497Ca n''t you see how covered it is with water- weed and tangled growth? 23497 Can not we keep them, uncle?"
23497Can we get some water?
23497Certainly; but how? 23497 Could it be a tapir?"
23497Could n''t be one of the great cats?
23497Did the captain do that?
23497Did you get wet, Pete?
23497Did you say that?
23497Did you, sir?
23497Do you hear, Bill Cross? 23497 Do you know what Bill Cross says, Master Nat?"
23497Do you know what sort of a place it is, sir?
23497Do you know what that is?
23497Do you see? 23497 Do you think it is right?"
23497Do you think there is nothing of the kind, then?
23497Drop you and your boat out at sea?
23497Eat us?
23497Face? 23497 Five- and- twenty, then?"
23497Fun?
23497Going to fire, uncle?
23497Going up the rivers, air you?
23497Good job he did n''t begin eating of you, ai n''t it, sir?
23497Had n''t we better get into shelter?
23497Had n''t you better let her go down a bit, sir?
23497Have n''t you seen him?
23497Have n''t you shot it, sir?
23497Have you any other reason?
23497Hear anything, Nat?
23497Hear that, Master Nat?
23497Here, I say, you have n''t gone and knocked your direction off your knowledge box, have you?
23497Here,he cried gruffly,"what d''ye mean by scaring a fellow like that?"
23497How big was it?
23497How d''yer feel now, Master Nat?
23497How do you know?
23497How far are we from the coast?
23497How far do you think we''ve come, sir, now?
23497How is it you came, then?
23497How much more is there to come, Nat?
23497How should I?
23497How stupid?
23497How was it?
23497How?
23497Hurt?
23497I say, what did you say was the name of them big snakes that lives part of their time in the water?
23497I say, what''s in the pot?
23497I say; doctor, air you mad?
23497I telled him I''d come to say good- bye, for as soon as it was too dark for them to see to save me I was going to--"Run away?
23497If he drowned himself and went to the bottom, how was I ever to get the chance to hit him, sir?
23497If it is calm in the morning, as soon as we are within sight of land--"What land?
23497Is he all right, sir?
23497Is he, sir?
23497Is my face better, Mr Nat?
23497Is n''t this wild enough?
23497Is that the sort of bird you mean?
23497Is them owls, sir?
23497Is this all true?
23497Jaguar or puma?
23497Keep on, sir?
23497Keep them? 23497 Like to know exactly, Nat?"
23497Long green, blue, red, and yellow feathers in its tail?
23497Look at what?
23497Macaw-- Ara,said my uncle;"flying across from tree to tree?"
23497Make you feel sick, Nat?
23497Master Nat,whispered Pete,"am I to come too?"
23497Mind what?
23497Name? 23497 Nattralist?"
23497Not our ship?
23497Not seized by one of the loathsome monsters?
23497Not send you?
23497Now, are n''t there no birds with tails like that?
23497Poisoned, uncle?
23497Pray why?
23497Pray, how big were they?
23497Ready to begin again, Nat?
23497Rowed?
23497Running?
23497See any sign of them?
23497See anything yet?
23497Seen a big snake?
23497Seen or heard anything, Cross?
23497Shall I shoot, uncle?
23497Shall we have the lanthorn, and I''ll stoop down and see if the roof gets higher farther in?
23497Shall we take our loads with us, uncle?
23497Shot at you?
23497Six- footer? 23497 So you mean to stop here, then?"
23497Still of the same mind, doctor?
23497Suppose they are savages with bows and arrows?
23497Suppose what?
23497Sure she''s gone, Master Nat?
23497Sure? 23497 Swim?
23497That snorting croak, then?
23497The big cat, sir?
23497Them big poll parrots, sir? 23497 Then he''s there now?"
23497Then we may stop with you, Master Nat?
23497Then we shall find the advantage, uncle, of having a little crew, and-- what''s the matter now?
23497Then we''re coming back?
23497Then what had you left undone?
23497There are birds with brightly- coloured tails such as he said?
23497Through the dark cavern?
23497To shoot the mosquitoes, uncle?
23497Told him you were going to run away?
23497Took one of the ship''s boats and stole away with it?
23497Trouble again, sir?
23497Was it all a dream?
23497Was it you two who came to the fire last night?
23497Was one hit?
23497Well, Cross,I said to the carpenter,"will this be fun enough for you?"
23497Well, Nat, what do you say? 23497 Well, captain,"he said,"having a word with my nephew about our boat?"
23497Well, doctor,he said;"been thinking it all over?"
23497Well, fifty?
23497Well, what are you going to live on?
23497Well, what do you make of her?
23497Well, what is it? 23497 Well, where is he?"
23497Wet, sir? 23497 What about Bill?"
23497What about going back, uncle?
23497What are we to do then, uncle?
23497What bird''s that?
23497What can I do?
23497What can you see?
23497What did they call you, Pete?
23497What did you do that for, Master Nat?
23497What do you think is making that?
23497What goes again?
23497What had you been about?
23497What has he found?
23497What have you been doing? 23497 What have you lost?"
23497What is it, Nat?
23497What shall I do then, Master Nat? 23497 What shall I do, Master Nat?"
23497What sound?
23497What time do you say?
23497What time is it, then?
23497What was that horrible cry?
23497What''s that?
23497What''s that?
23497What''s the matter, Nat?
23497What''s the other''s name?
23497What''s the use?
23497What''s your name?
23497What, are you tired already?
23497What, to take the axe?
23497What, tried to get under that horrible dark arch? 23497 What?"
23497Where are they?
23497Where are you, Pete?
23497Where did the hail come from, Nat?
23497Where is your boat?
23497Where was it stuck on-- your back?
23497Where''s the boy?
23497Which?
23497Who was going to shout when there was a great snake curled up in knots like a ship''s fender right over your head? 23497 Why are you doing that?"
23497Why do n''t you speak out and tell the gentleman, Bill Cross?
23497Why not strike off, then, from the top of the great cliff above the arch, and try and find where the stream dives down?
23497Why not yours?
23497Why not? 23497 Why not?"
23497Why not?
23497Why not?
23497Why, Bill,I said,"has he gone mad?"
23497Why, sir? 23497 Why, you miserable, wicked young rascal, how dare you tell me such a thing as that?"
23497Why?
23497Why?
23497Why?
23497Why?
23497Will he, sir? 23497 Would n''t it be better to keep on up it?
23497Would you mind doing it?
23497Yes, sir, and it''ll just be a treat; for I have n''t had much of the fun so far, have I?
23497Yes?
23497You warn''t with him there, was you?
23497You will take me if you go again, Master Nat?
23497You wo n''t mind, Cross?
23497You would n''t like an eye like that, sir?
23497You''ve seen them with tails as long as that?
23497` Where am I to run to?'' 23497 All at once he broke the silence by whispering,--Asleep, Nat?"
23497And what then?"
23497Any other reason?"
23497Are n''t you, sir?"
23497Are you killed?"
23497But the doctor says it would shake him too much, so what do you say to this?
23497But what about fresh water?"
23497Can you see their canoe?"
23497Clean?"
23497Did n''t you see us hunting for you?"
23497Did we leave anything behind?
23497Did you forget to wind it up?"
23497Do n''t you wish we had Ebo here?"
23497Do you call me something?"
23497Do you know what fevers is?"
23497Do you?"
23497For, as the water rattled again under the bows and we glided on, I shouted aloud--"Pete, lad, where are you?"
23497Going back now?"
23497Going up yonder to try and find the river again farther on, are n''t we?"
23497Had n''t we better call the carpenter Man?"
23497Hardly room to move, eh, carpenter?"
23497He''s a_ re- lay- tive_ of yours, is n''t he?"
23497He''s going shooting, is n''t he?"
23497Hear that?"
23497How do you feel?"
23497How have you got on?"
23497How shall we find the place where it narrows again?"
23497I said, smiling;"how''s the eye this morning?"
23497I say, though,"I cried,"will you keep your face clean if you''re allowed to stay?"
23497I say, you are n''t much hurt, are you, sir?"
23497I say: who was right about the axe?"
23497Is n''t it a beauty?"
23497Is the anchor quite fast?"
23497It''s Peter, I know; but-- I say, Bill Cross,"he cried sharply,"what''s my name?"
23497It''s a pity Nat; for there are plenty of birds about, and we could get some good specimens.--Yes; what is it?"
23497Light a fire?"
23497Me and Bill Cross''ll take it in turns pig- a- backing him; wo n''t we mate?"
23497Not hurt, are you, Nat?"
23497Now then, Cuvier, where is the happy spot?
23497Now then, any sign of the enemy?"
23497Now, Nat, what is it?
23497One of the howling monkeys?"
23497Ought not the quetzals to be found in a place like this?"
23497Over yonder?"
23497S''pose I build a raft, and we go back the same as we come?"
23497See it?"
23497See their tracks?"
23497Shall I run back and tell the doctor?"
23497Shall we explore the underground river?"
23497Then I began to think that I should be torn to pieces and devoured, and my next vivid thought took the form of a question-- Will it hurt much?
23497Think I wanted to wake him up?
23497Uncle Dick laid his hand upon my shoulder, and he pressed it hard, as if silently saying,"Did you hear that?"
23497Want to take it?"
23497Was it close to the trunk, my lad?"
23497Well, my lad, in trouble again?"
23497Well, they wo n''t hurt us, sir?"
23497What are you thinking about?"
23497What do you say, Cross?"
23497What do you say?"
23497What is it-- granite or gneiss?"
23497What shall I do now, sir?
23497What shall I do?
23497What snake is it?"
23497What time do we start to- morrow?"
23497What time is it?"
23497What was it?"
23497What''s that, Cross?"
23497What''s the good o''living such a life as this?"
23497What''s this here?
23497What''s to be done?"
23497Where''s the lanthorn?"
23497Where''s your hankychy?"
23497Which way shall we try?"
23497Who are you, and what are you doing here?"
23497Who''d have thought of seeing humming- birds so near the sea?"
23497Who''s being bullied now?"
23497Why, was n''t it alive with birds and bats?"
23497Will you try?"
23497You did, did n''t you, mate?"
23497You''ll tell us when to fire, sir?"
23497You''ve tried it, then?"
23497` You are?''
23497cried Pete in a whimpering voice;"touch me when I''m going for some water for Master Nat?
23497cried the poor fellow fiercely,"leave me behind, and you go?
23497he said;"you do n''t think, then, that the stream rises entirely there?"
23497who are you?"
23497you''ve sent your boat adrift?"
21356A bark canoe, eh, Nat?
21356A target, uncle?
21356A trogon, sir?
21356Ah, Nat,he said smiling,"how are you after your long sleep?"
21356Am I very much more sunburnt than I used to be?
21356Am I, sir?
21356And Aunt Sophy?
21356And are there humming- birds, sir, in the East?
21356And are there no birds of paradise there, uncle?
21356And are you going to stuff Polly again?
21356And can you shoot such little things, sir?
21356And did you shoot them all, uncle?
21356And do you feel sure, uncle, that there are no savages here?
21356And do you know what they are, my boy?
21356And have you seen birds like these alive, sir?
21356And how about getting up in good time?
21356And how do you preserve the skins?
21356And humming- birds, sir?
21356And it is a thrush, uncle?
21356And may I go-- will you take me, Uncle Dick? 21356 And of an evening we could sit in our tent or hut, and skin and preserve, or pin out what we had found during the day, Nat, eh?"
21356And shot, sir?
21356And what do they capture, sir?
21356And what is to become of the boy then?
21356And what''s in these drawers, eh?
21356And when they cry` cuckoo''the summer draws near, eh, Nat? 21356 And you would not mind coming out at a time like this, uncle?"
21356Any luck, Nat?
21356Anything the matter, Nat?
21356Are cuckoos''eggs small, uncle?
21356Are there more birds?
21356Are there tree bull- frogs, uncle?
21356Are they poisonous, then?
21356Are they worth trying to shoot, uncle?
21356At the sea- gulls, uncle?
21356Back to South America, Dick?
21356Bit too rough for that, mister, is n''t it?
21356But I thought, uncle,I said,"that they were very dangerous, and that those krises they wore were poisoned?"
21356But am I going to be very ill, uncle?
21356But are you very cross with me?
21356But do n''t it seem rather cruel to shoot such lovely creatures, Dick?
21356But do n''t you mean to go to Malacca, uncle?
21356But do these lovely creatures suck all the little birds''eggs to make their voices clear?
21356But do you think it is a good gun, uncle? 21356 But how could we make the sides watertight, uncle?"
21356But how shall we know if I hit it?
21356But if aunt would be very cross, uncle, had n''t I better leave it?
21356But is it rough out there, uncle, amongst the islands?
21356But it will be easier to shoot from the ground than from on shipboard, uncle, will it not?
21356But shall you stay here long, uncle?
21356But such birds as birds of paradise, uncle?
21356But the boy must not run wild as--"I did? 21356 But why do you say that?"
21356But why does it seem queer, Nat?
21356But would n''t you kill lions and tigers, sir?
21356But you do n''t think they can talk to one another, do you, uncle?
21356But you knew you could manage the boat, uncle?
21356But you would n''t eat parrots, uncle, lories, and paroquets, and these sort of birds?
21356But, uncle,I said,"is n''t it unreasonable of Aunt Sophia to expect us to do what all the king''s horses and all the king''s men could not do?"
21356But-- but you would n''t like to go with your Uncle Richard, Nat, would you?
21356Ca n''t we take him, uncle?
21356Collecting- boxes, Nat?
21356Cross, my boy? 21356 Deceitful, uncle?"
21356Did I, uncle?
21356Did you ever fire off a gun?
21356Did you see it?
21356Did you see its great beak, uncle?
21356Did you think I was going to open the cases to- day, Nat?
21356Do n''t be stupid, Joe,said my aunt sharply;"why should n''t the boy go, I should like to know?"
21356Do n''t you feel disappointed, Nat?
21356Do you collect, sir?
21356Do you like to hear of such things, then?
21356Do you see how ill and white this boy has turned, Richard? 21356 Do you see those mountains, Nat?"
21356Do you think any naturalist has been here before, uncle?
21356Do you think he will be ready to help kill the serpent, uncle?
21356Do you think it will come this way, uncle?
21356Do you think, Nat, that I have been leading you wrong?
21356Do, my boy? 21356 Does he fly out into tempers like that, Nat?"
21356Eh? 21356 Eh?"
21356Fever, uncle?
21356First? 21356 Get on?"
21356Had n''t I better come, uncle?
21356Have n''t I hit them, uncle?
21356Have n''t you, my lad?
21356Have some lessons, eh?
21356Have you forgotten all I told you about the representatives of our home birds being bright in colour?
21356Have you, Nat, my boy?
21356Have you, Nat?
21356Have you, uncle?
21356How do you know?
21356How is it possible? 21356 How soon can we get ashore?"
21356How would you manage it then, Nat?
21356How?
21356Hurt, Nat?
21356I am glad, my boy,said Uncle Joseph,"so glad you have caught him; but have you hurt him much?"
21356I know there are in Borneo, so why should there not be others in an island like this?
21356I say, uncle, is n''t this all nonsense?
21356If it were a starling, what family would it belong to?
21356In a couple of hours, now, Nat; but I said will this place do?
21356Is it an earthquake, uncle?
21356Is it very late?
21356Is that a pigeon, uncle?
21356Like to go with you, Dick?
21356Look through?
21356Make skins, sir?
21356Mind? 21356 No, Nat,"he replied, joining in my mirth;"but do you see how different they are to our sailors here?"
21356No, uncle, of course not; but wo n''t you be dull?
21356Now then, Joseph; what did you say?
21356Now what are those, Nat?
21356Now, Nat,he cried,"where is your geography?
21356Now, Nat,he said,"suppose after going through all my trouble I find that half my specimens are destroyed, what shall I do?"
21356Oh yes, uncle,I said;"but may I pull it to pieces?"
21356Oh you wicked, wicked boy,she cried as I came up;"what were you doing?"
21356Oh, please, sir, are you Master Nathaniel, who''s far away at sea?
21356Or shoot out Jane''s or Cook''s eye? 21356 Our boat, uncle?"
21356Ready?
21356Shall I fire again, uncle?
21356Shall I shoot it, uncle?
21356Shall I try and draw a snake, uncle?
21356Shall we be able to make one big enough to carry our chests, uncle?
21356Shall we follow the monster and try and shoot it?
21356Shall we go round the garden again, Dick?
21356Shall you go alone, uncle?
21356Shall you have it skinned, uncle?
21356Shall you keep your loaded gun with you always, uncle, while we are with these people?
21356Shall you take the guns, uncle?
21356So far, so good, Nat,he said;"now are you very hungry?"
21356So you think we could not put Humpty Dumpty together again, Nat?
21356Speak out then, my boy, what is it?
21356Suppose they did, Nat, what would happen?
21356Taught yourself?
21356That is not cocoa- nut, is it, uncle?
21356That lovely buff bird, uncle?
21356The bird? 21356 Then how are we to get any?"
21356Then what''s to be done, uncle?
21356Then why did you say it was capital, uncle?
21356Then you wo n''t be too prejudiced to eat them?
21356Then-- then, had n''t we much better go ashore at once, uncle?
21356There, Nat,said my uncle;"do you hear that?"
21356They are the wickedest thieves that ever entered a garden; are n''t they, Nat?
21356They could n''t be crows,I said,"because--""Because what?"
21356Think not, Nat?
21356Think so?
21356Think there''s anything inside, Natty, my boy?
21356Think you can, Natty?
21356To be sure, Nat,he cried smiling;"nothing like trying, my boy; but how would you begin?"
21356To be sure, Nat,he replied, laughing;"but where are paper, pencil, or chalk?
21356To be sure, Nat; why not? 21356 To be sure, my boy,"said uncle, thoughtfully;"I wonder whether your aunt would want Buzzy and Nap stuffed if they were to die?"
21356Uncle Dick,I said one day,"shall we ever have another trip together collecting birds?"
21356Was it dangerous to come out to- day, uncle, in this little boat?
21356We must take what he shows us for granted, Nat,said my uncle, as Ebo jumped up smiling, as much as to say,"Was n''t I clever?"
21356Well, I have pulled her to pieces, have n''t I, uncle?
21356Well, Nat, what do you think of our visitors?
21356Well, Nat, will that place do for a beginning?
21356Well, Nat,he said,"is our wild- goose chase nearly at an end?
21356Well, Nat,said Uncle Dick,"what do you say to that?"
21356Well, Nat,said my uncle,"what''s to be done?
21356Well, it is n''t a pheasant, is it?
21356Well, my boy, do you suppose I shall be frightened?
21356Well, of course you did,said my aunt tartly;"do you suppose I thought you stopped to live in the museum?"
21356Well, should you think it were a finch, Nat?
21356Well, was n''t that right of him, uncle?
21356Well, what should you suppose a bird of paradise to be?
21356Well, yes, my boy,he said;"but, but-- how about your aunt?
21356What are we to do then, uncle?
21356What did you do that for?
21356What do you say, Nat?
21356What does he mean by that, uncle?
21356What does he mean, uncle?
21356What for, Nat?
21356What is it, then, Nat?
21356What is it, uncle?
21356What is it, uncle?
21356What is it, uncle?
21356What is it?
21356What is the matter, my boy; are you poorly?
21356What is to be done?
21356What place is it, then?
21356What shall we do now?
21356What then? 21356 What then?"
21356What was it, uncle?
21356What would they be if they were in England and only plain- coloured?
21356What''s horrid, Natty?
21356What, build a hut, uncle?
21356What, my boy?
21356What, that black star? 21356 When you come back?"
21356Where are we going, I wonder?
21356Where did the others go?
21356Where did you get these, Nat?
21356Where did you shoot that beautiful lory, uncle?
21356Where does he mean to go? 21356 Where shall you go this time, sir?"
21356Where to, uncle?
21356Where was it when you fired?
21356Where''s Uncle Joseph?
21356Who-- who''s that?
21356Why not, Nat? 21356 Why not, boy?
21356Why not, my boy? 21356 Why not?"
21356Why not?
21356Why, Nat, my boy, what''s the matter? 21356 Why, Uncle Joe,"I cried, with a curious choking feeling coming in my throat,"you do n''t think I could ever forget you?"
21356Why, how do you know?
21356Why, my boy?
21356Why, my boy?
21356Why, uncle?
21356Why, what do you mean, uncle?
21356Why, what does he mean, uncle?
21356Why, what does this mean?
21356Why, what is it, my boy?
21356Why, what''s that-- a crossbow?
21356Why, who was Polly-- one of the maids?
21356Why, why, why-- what have you been doing to him, Dick?
21356Will it hurt me, uncle?
21356Will she be very cross?
21356Will they burn well?
21356Will you-- will you show it to me, sir?
21356With a blow- pipe, sir?
21356Without looking, uncle?
21356Wo n''t you fish, uncle?
21356Wo n''t you have some dinner first, uncle?
21356Would he? 21356 Would n''t it be better to go and tell Aunt Sophia frankly that we have had an accident, and spoiled the parrot, uncle?"
21356Would such a serpent be very strong, uncle?
21356Would you mind taking him to your aunt, Natty, my boy?
21356Yes, Nat,he said;"what is it?"
21356Yes, uncle, but shall we see wonderful lands such as I should like?
21356Yes, uncle; is n''t it a beauty?
21356Yes, yes, you will, wo n''t you?
21356Yes,said Uncle Joe quickly,"but how about the night?"
21356Yes,said my uncle,"and I know--""Know what, uncle?"
21356You can stuff birds, then, sir?
21356You could n''t spoil it, could you?
21356You did n''t rub the earth and dead leaves in his coat then, Nat?
21356You did what?
21356You mean that the savages will kill us if we land?
21356You will go where all the most beautiful birds are plentiful, uncle?
21356You will not be afraid?
21356You would n''t like to shoot a blackbird, perhaps?
21356You would n''t mind, would you, uncle?
21356You? 21356 You?"
21356` Come, papa,''I said,` what do you think of your little one?'' 21356 And found out where the naturalists put the wires, eh?
21356Are these mountains?"
21356Are you ready?"
21356Are you unwell?"
21356Been fishing, eh?"
21356But do n''t you think, Natty, we might still manage to put Humpty Dumpty together again?"
21356But do you think it will do?"
21356But then what was the body to be made of?
21356Can you tell me, sir?"
21356Do n''t you hear the birds calling?"
21356Do n''t you know?"
21356Do you like it, Nat-- do you like it?"
21356Do you not think, my boy, you have chosen badly?
21356Do you see that?"
21356Do you suppose that because birds have bright feathers they are not good to eat?"
21356Do you?"
21356Does it seem dry?"
21356Have you heard it lately?"
21356Have you recognised that chief this morning?"
21356He stared at me from top to toe, and at last said in a trembling voice:"You''re not my boy Nat?"
21356Here, uncle?"
21356How are we to make a boat?"
21356How could I get one to try with?"
21356How do you expect his education to get on?"
21356How do you feel now?"
21356Humpty Dumpty?
21356I hope you like bitters, Nat?"
21356I know how soft and rounded and smooth birds are; and did you ever see such a horrid thing as that?
21356I pull this lever and the breech of the gun opens so that I can put in this little roll, which is a cartridge-- do you see?"
21356Is anything wrong?"
21356Is anything wrong?"
21356Is it an eel?"
21356Is land in sight?"
21356Is n''t it lovely, my boy, under this blue sky and shading trees?"
21356Is that the place, uncle?"
21356It used to be,"Nat, have you wiped your shoes?"
21356Monsieur Ebony-- pigeon?"
21356No, my boy,"he said, rubbing his hands softly;"I should like it; but do you think you could stuff a bird?"
21356Now then, which shall it be?"
21356Now what do you say?
21356Now, Nat, what do you say-- which was in fault last time?"
21356Polly?
21356Shall I get the guns out of the cases?"
21356Should I wake Uncle Dick, or should I try to be brave enough to deal with the danger myself?
21356Should I waken my uncle?
21356Should there be tigers, or leopards, or even wild boars, what chance should we have if they attacked?
21356So you pulled Polly to pieces, eh?
21356Suppose you were to break a window with that, eh?
21356Taxi what?"
21356That''s the way; but stop a moment; how would you put it together again?"
21356Then why did you come?"
21356There was a pause for a time, and then he said again,"Well, Nat, will you give up?"
21356This was a very pretty theory; but would not they make some noise as they came, and if so, where was that noise?
21356Thrushes would be good, would n''t they?"
21356We naturalists always compare notes-- eh, Nat?"
21356Well, Nat, what is it?"
21356Well, how are you?"
21356Well, what shall we do with them?"
21356Well, why is it?"
21356What are you both doing?"
21356What do you say-- will you come?"
21356What do you say?"
21356What do you think of that bird?"
21356What does it matter if you do miss?
21356What has he to fret about?"
21356What has the poor cuckoo done that his hot country friends should not be gay?"
21356What is more familiar than the old hen''s cry to her chickens when she has found something eatable?
21356What kind of a handle would you like, Nat?"
21356What made you put that tomtit in that position, Nat?"
21356What say you, Joe?"
21356What should we do?"
21356What was it made by-- some kind of crow?"
21356What would Uncle Joe say?"
21356What would become of us when our food and powder and shot were gone?
21356What''s become of all the savages?"
21356What''s that?"
21356What''s that?"
21356What''s that?"
21356Where''s Uncle Joe?"
21356Who taught you how to stuff birds, Nat?"
21356Why did I not spring up to help him?
21356Why do n''t you come and drive these people away?
21356Why do n''t you try to land there?"
21356Why not at once, eh?"
21356Why, here''s Sophy-- Sophy, dear, who''s this?"
21356Why, look here, Nat, what do parrots eat?"
21356Why, what are you sighing about, boy?"
21356You do n''t want to eat your birds raw, do you?"
21356You see I half told her that it would be done to- day, and I''m afraid--""Oh, uncle, why did you tell her that?"
21356You would like to come and see my collection, eh?"
21356You''ll be careful, though?"
21356are you going to eat those-- those--""Pigeons?"
21356birds of paradise with their lovely buff plumes, uncle?"
21356cried my uncle,"is n''t that waste, Nat?"
21356cried our visitor;"who stuffed those birds?"
21356do their tails go right along the box, uncle?"
21356has he?"
21356he said seriously,"parrot''s toe?"
21356is he not good to eat?"
21356is there?"
21356said my aunt;"take him with you right away on your travels?"
21356stop a minute: where are you going?"
21356that lovely orange and black bird, uncle?"
21356that rocky place, uncle?"
21356to attack it, Nat?"
21356we are talking about barn- door fowls and losing chances to get lovely specimens of foreign birds and-- what''s that?"
21356what is Ebo doing?"
21356what place is that?"
21356what''s he going to do?"
21356what''s that?"
21356what''s the matter with Ebo?"
21356what''s the matter with Ebo?"
21356where shall I go, squire?"
21356where''s that, I wonder?"
2740How can water injure the leaves, if indeed this is at all the case?
2740(?)
2740), and do they throw up on the surface of the ground numerous castings or vermicular masses such as we so commonly see in Europe?
2740), by you be looked at as reversion to the columbine state?
2740), to note whether the females flocked in equal numbers to the"drumming"of the rarer form as to the common form?
2740): if he is right, do you not think that the unknown force may make more intelligible the extension of the great northern ice- cap?
2740... When you next write to your son, will you please remember me kindly to him and give him my best thanks for his note?
27406, Queen Anne Street, W., December 19th[ 1870?].
2740About the difference in the power of flight in Dorkings, etc., may it not be due merely to greater weight of body in the adults?
2740Also the length and breadth of the shell, and how much of leg( which leg?)
2740America( North), are European birds blown to?
2740And did the wound suppurate, or heal by the first intention?
2740And might you not add that over the whole world it would probably be admitted that a larger area is NOW at rest than in movement?
2740Are such castings found in the forests beneath the dead withered leaves?
2740Are the purple flowers borne on moderately long racemes?
2740Are there any other glands or other organs which you can think of?
2740Are there any traces of other muscles?
2740Are there everywhere many unpaired birds?
2740Are there many unmarried birds?
2740Are there not lots of good young chemists and astronomers or physicists?
2740Are you familiar with appearance of ice- action?
2740Are you sure there is no mistake?
2740As you so kindly helped me before on dimorphism, will you forgive me begging for a little further information, if in your power to give it?
2740Because at 12,000 feet he finds the same kind of clay with that of the Pampas he never doubts that it is contemporaneous with the Pampas[ debacle?]
2740But can you account for the males not having been rendered equally brilliant and equally protected?
2740But do n''t you think that viscid lava might be very slow in communicating its pressure equally in all directions?
2740But how was the Glen Roy lake drained when the water stood at level of the middle"road"?
2740But what in the world is to be done?"
2740But who can tell what effect this mile or two of new sedimentary strata would have from mere gravity on the level of the supporting surface?
2740But why do you not publish these facts in a separate little paper?
2740But why, oh, why should so many monocotyledons have come there?
2740By any chance have you at Kew any odd varieties of the common potato?
2740By the way, can you lend me the January number of the"London Journal of Botany"for an article on insect- agency in fertilisation?
2740By the way, have you any other Goodeniaceae which you could lend me, besides Leschenaultia and Scaevola, of which I have seen enough?
2740By the way, how do you and Buckland account for the"tails"of diluvium in Scotland?
2740Can he refer to terminal moraines alone when he says fragments in moraines are rounded?
2740Can it be my dear friend?
2740Can the name Heterocentron have any reference to such diversity?
2740Can this indicate four confluent pistils?
2740Can you forgive me for troubling you at such unreasonable length?
2740Can you give any explanation of this statement?
2740Can you give, or obtain from your father, any information on this head, and allow me to quote your authority?
2740Can you help me?
2740Can you now send me a plant?
2740Can you or any of your colleagues think of any such plant?
2740Can you remember how we ever first met?
2740Can you spare me a good plant( or even two) of Oxalis sensitiva?
2740Can you tell me what this relation is?
2740Can you tell me whether any Fringillidae or Sylviadae erect their feathers when frightened or enraged?
2740Can you tell me?
2740Can you throw any light on this?
2740Could there have been a lively midshipman on board, who in the morning stocked the pool from the adjoining coast?
2740Could you ask any one to observe this for me in an eye- dispensary or hospital?
2740Could you have a seedling dug up and potted?
2740Could you look out for an additional instance?
2740Could you make it scream without hurting it much?
2740Could you not ascertain whether the barbs are sensitive, and how soon they become spiral in the bud?
2740Could you not get an accurate sketch of the direction of the hair of the tip of an ear?
2740Could you not invent some quite new term for gland, implying viscidity?
2740Could you oblige me by taking the great trouble to send me in an old tin canister any of these orchids, permitting me, of course, to repay postage?
2740Did the shell remain attached to the beetle''s leg from the 18th to the 23rd, and was the beetle kept during this time in the air?
2740Did you ever hear of the existence of any sub- breed of the canary in which the male differs in plumage from the female?
2740Do the leaflets sleep on the following night in the usual manner?
2740Do the same leaflets on successive nights move in the same strange manner?
2740Do these fragments coincide in level with Glen Gluoy shelf?
2740Do these secrete?
2740Do they run down walls of ovarium, and then turn up the placenta, and so debouch near the"orifices"of the ovules?
2740Do very vigorous and well- nourished hens receive the male earlier in the spring than weaker or poorer hens?
2740Do you chance to know of any botanical collector in Mexico or Peru?
2740Do you grow Adlumia cirrhosa?
2740Do you intend to follow out your views?
2740Do you know Asa Gray''s child book on the functions of plants, or some such title?
2740Do you know Coryanthes, with its wonderful basket of water?
2740Do you know any gallinaceous bird in which the female has well developed spurs?
2740Do you know any good conchologist in Northampton who could name it?
2740Do you know anything of his knowledge?
2740Do you know how the muscles are in this part in the anthropoid apes?
2740Do you know of any birds besides pigeons, and, as it is said, the raven, which pair for their whole lives?
2740Do you know of any birds besides some of the gallinaceae which are polygamous?
2740Do you know well Bronn in his last Entwickelung( or some such word) on this subject?
2740Do you not think it a very curious subject?
2740Do you remember how savage you were long years ago at my broaching such a conjecture?
2740Do you remember telling me you could see no nectar in your Rhexia?
2740Do you remember the scarlet Leschenaultia formosa with the sticky margin outside the indusium?
2740Do you sigh over the"Insular Floras,"the Introduction to New Zealand Flora, to Australia, your Arctic Flora, and dear Galapagos, etc., etc., etc.?
2740Do you take in"Nature,"or shall I send you a copy?
2740Does Lyell know Loven, or his address and title?
2740Does any sensitive species of Mimosa grow in your neighbourhood?
2740Does it bend through irritability when rubbed?"
2740Does it not look as if flowers were normally bilateral; just in the same way as we now know that the radiating star- fish, etc., are bilateral?
2740Does it not strike you as very difficult to understand how insects remove the pollinia and carry them to the stigmas?
2740Does not the N. American view of warmer or more equable period, after great Glacial period, become much more probable in Europe?
2740Does the orbicularis press against, and so directly stimulate, the lachrymal gland?
2740Does this indicate that the soluble salts have been washed out?
2740Does this not look like a vivification of a fossil seed?
2740Does this not strike you as a good case of false relation?
2740Does this orchid produce many capsules?
2740Down, 20th[ 1862?].
2740Down, 25th[ 1863?]
2740Down, 4th[ about 1862- 3?]
2740Down, August 23rd[ 1846?].
2740Down, December 12th[ 1860?].
2740Down, December 23rd[ 1870?].
2740Down, December 3rd,[ 1862?].
2740Down, February 16th[ 1862?].
2740Down, February 16th[ 1867?]
2740Down, February 3rd[ 1862?]
2740Down, January 1st[ 1878?].
2740Down, January 5th,[ 1871?]
2740Down, July 19th[ 1881?]
2740Down, June 15th[ 1869?].
2740Down, June 22nd[ 1862?].
2740Down, June 3rd[ 1870?].
2740Down, May 5th[ 1868?].
2740Down, October 25th[ 1861?]
2740Down, October, 13th[ 1876?].
2740Down, Saturday[ 1874?].
2740Down, Thursday, February 21st[ 1868- 70?].
2740Down, Wednesday night[ 1849?].
2740Down[ 1846?].
2740First, the Glen[ shelf?
2740For where could the rich lowland equatorial flora have existed during a period of general refrigeration sufficient for this?
2740Garden of Edinburgh( do you know anything of him?)
2740Gray?
2740Have any of the forms of Primula, which are non- dimorphic, been propagated for some little time by seed in garden?
2740Have you Clematis cirrhosa?
2740Have you Kerguelen Land amongst your volcanic islands?
2740Have you a copy of my Orchis book?
2740Have you been a large collector of caterpillars?
2740Have you ever attended to glacier action?
2740Have you ever seen any form from the same countries which could be the females?
2740Have you ever thought of keeping a young monkey, so as to observe its mind?
2740Have you had any experience of birds hatched under a foster- mother making their nests in the proper manner?
2740Have you had any opportunity of tracing a bed of marble?
2740Have you looked at any this year?")...
2740Have you looked at the pollen- masses of the bee- Ophrys?
2740Have you read Mr. Gurney''s articles in the"Fortnightly"and"Cornhill?"
2740Have you read Wallace''s recent articles?
2740Have you seeds of Oxalis sensitiva, which I see mentioned in books?
2740Have you thought at all over Rogers''Law, as he reiterates it, of cleavage being parallel to his axes- planes of elevation?
2740Have you thought of him?
2740He says he regrets that he did not test the ovules with chemical agents: does he mean tincture of iodine?
2740Here is another point: have you any Toucans?
2740How about the Quagga case?
2740How about the drake and Gallus bankiva?
2740How can the sexes be so equally matched?
2740How do you like that?
2740How is it with the eyebrows?
2740How is this about several males; is it not so?
2740How is this in the cases mentioned by you?
2740How is this with the native plants during a windy day?
2740How is this with the rhinoceros?
2740I am sure I have read somewhere of the cones of Lepidodendron being found round the stump of a tree, or am I confusing something else?
2740I daresay that you are right in that nectar was originally secreted within the staminal tube; but why has not the one stamen long since cohered?
2740I gather there are a good many muscles in various parts of the body which are in this same state: could you specify any of the best cases?
2740I have been much interested by what you say on the rostellum exciting pollen to protrude tubes; but are you sure that the rostellum does excite them?
2740I have lately observed that you have one great authority( C. Prevost),[ not] that authority signifies a[ farthing?]
2740I presume that these seeds can not be covered with any attractive pulp?
2740I see few periodicals: when have you published on Clivia?
2740I see in your list Clianthus, Carmichaelia( four species), a new genus, a shrub, and Edwardsia( is latter Papilionaceous?).
2740I should like to hear your case of the Primula: is it certainly propagated by seed?
2740I should think voyage out and home ought to be paid for?
2740I think I have often seen several males following one female; and what decides which male shall succeed?
2740I wonder much whether it stands out in the line of any oceanic current, which does not so forcibly strike the main island?
2740I wonder whether the ovules could be thus fertilised?
2740If so, can the wrinkling of the lower eyelids, which has often perplexed me, act in pushing back the eyeball?
2740If so, may we venture to call it so, or shall I put an(?)
2740If the Lochaber lakes had been formed by an ice- period posterior to the( marine?)
2740If there be not two forms of Rhexia, will you compare the position of the part in young and old flowers?
2740If you are well and have leisure, will you kindly give me one bit of information: Does Ophrys arachnites occur in the Isle of Wight?
2740If you chance to meet Ramsay will you ask him whether he has it?
2740If you have reflected on this point, what do you think of it?
2740If you know beforehand, will you tell me when your paper is read, for the chance of my being able to attend?
2740If you see him pray say I am truly grateful; I dare not write to a live Bishop or a Lady, but if I knew the address of"Rucker"?
2740If you sow any, had you not better sow a good many?
2740If you want to know further particulars of my experiments on Monochaetum(?)
2740In an old note of yours( which I have just found) you say that you have a sensitive Schrankia: could this be lent me?
2740In any case, how in the name of Heaven can it make a hollow in solid rock, which surely must be a work of many years?
2740In such cases what outline do you give to the upper surface of the lava in the dike connecting them?
2740In the summer, could I persuade you to pay us a visit of a day or two, and I would try and get Bates and some others to come down?
2740Is Sphaenium corneum a synonym of Cyclas?
2740Is expense of living high at Darjeeling?
2740Is he as good a workman as he appears?
2740Is it a common yellow cowslip?
2740Is it not a very remarkable fact?
2740Is it not curious that there should be such diversified sensitiveness in allied plants?
2740Is it not monstrous for a professed conchologist?
2740Is it your brother Harrison W., whom I know?
2740Is not this making Geology nice and simple for beginners?
2740Is not this most extraordinary, and a puzzler?
2740Is the male Macacus silenus furnished with longer hair than the female about the neck and face?
2740Is the scar on your son''s leg on the same side and on exactly the same spot where you were wounded?
2740Is there any place in London where parcels are received for you, or shall I send it by post?
2740Is this not so?
2740Is this not very curious, and opposed to the morphological idea that a flower is a condensed continuous spire of leaves?
2740It was in Park Street; but what brought us together?
2740Journal[ Magazine?.]"
2740July 2nd[ 1863?]
2740Lastly, have you any seaside plants with bloom?
2740Lastly, in the"prize- canaries,"which have black wing- and tail- feathers during their first(?)
2740March 21st[ 1871?].
2740May I say it is healthy?
2740May not a volcano be likened to a protruding and cracked portion on a vast natural high- pressure boiler, formed by the surrounding area of country?
2740May there be some sexual relation between A. Loddigesii and luteola; they seem very close?
2740Muller wrote:"Are the three which grow near each other seedlings from the same mother- plant or perhaps from seeds of the same capsule?
2740Now is not this structure a good argument that I interpret the homologies of the sides of clinandrum rightly?
2740Now the question is, what think you of the offer?
2740Now, can you tell me whether each spine has likewise an oblique unstriped or striped muscle, as figured by Lister?
2740Now, could you open the stomachs of these ants and examine the contents, so as to prove or disprove this remarkable hypothesis?
2740Now, if in your power, would you observe the position of the pistil in different plants, in lately opened flowers of the same age?
2740Now, is this not odd?
2740Now, some persons can move the skin of their hairy heads; and is this not effected by the panniculus?
2740On what kind of coast or land could the plants have lived?
2740One of this name has made a splendid medical discovery of nicotine counteracting strychnine and tetanus?
2740Or in extreme prostration from any illness?
2740P.S.--Do you happen to know, when there are only four stamens, whether it is the petal or sepal- facers which are preserved?
2740P.S.--I may give as instance of[ this] class of facts, that Barrow asserts that a male Emberiza(?)
2740Please to tell me where I can find any account of the auditory organs in the orthoptera?
2740Prof. Haughtons at Dublin?
2740Queries: Does any female bird regularly sing?
2740Secondly, may I quote you that you have often(?)
2740Secondly: Have you any white and yellow varieties of Verbascum which you could give me, or propagate for me, or LEND me for a year?
2740Shall I call on Friday morning at 9.30 and sit half an hour with you?
2740Shall you do any levelling?
2740Should you care to see an elaborate German pamphlet by Hermann Muller on the gradation and distinction of the forms of Epipactis and of Platanthera?
2740The map of Etna, which I have been just looking at, looks like a sudden falling in, does it not?
2740These notions are at least possible, and would they not vitiate your argument?
2740Thirdly: Can you give me seeds of any Rubiaceae of the sub- order Cinchoneae, as Spermacoce, Diodia, Mitchella, Oldenlandia?
2740Thursday[ 1874?].
2740To return again to subject of crossing: I have been inclined to speculate so far, as to think( my!?)
2740Was the latter point put in in a hurry to round the sentence, or do you really know of cases?
2740Was there ever such an enigma?
2740What a curious case your Gongora must be: could you spare me one of the largest capsules?
2740What can the explanation be?
2740What do you think about it?
2740What do you think of having Scott there for a year or two to work and experiment?
2740What do you think of this notion?
2740What is the character or colour of the first plumage of bright yellow or mealy canaries which breed true to these tints?
2740What is the difference in flowers of the rue?
2740What is the meaning of the mucus so copiously emitted from the moistened seeds of Iberis, and of at least some species of Linum?
2740What kind of birds were these twenty?
2740What kinds of seeds have the plants which are common to the distant mountain- summits in Africa?
2740What other mode of transit is conceivable?
2740What species is it?
2740What think you?
2740What will Sir William say?
2740When the Callithrix sciureus screams violently, does it wrinkle up the skin round the eyes like a baby always does?
2740When the elephants in the garden are turned out and are excited so as to move quickly, do they carry their tails aloft?
2740When the heart beats hard and quick, and the head becomes somewhat congested with blood in any illness, does the pupil contract?
2740When thus screaming do the eyes become suffused with moisture?
2740When will you come here again?
2740Who will say what this rate and what this duration is?
2740Why not sprinkle fresh plaster of Paris and make impenetrable crust?
2740Will he find the opportunity for experimental observations, which are a passion with him?
2740Will it not be possible to give enlarged drawings of some leading forms of trees?
2740Will not that be a hard nut for you when you come to treat in detail on geographical distribution?
2740Will you advise me for him?
2740Will you ask Sutton to observe carefully?
2740Will you have the kindness to look occasionally at your bee- Ophrys near Torquay, and see whether pollinia are ever removed?
2740Will you have the kindness to tell me whether the birds prefer one colour to another?
2740Will you look to this?
2740Will you not be puzzled when you come to the orchids?
2740Will you suggest to Oliver to review this paper?
2740Would a comparison of the ashes of terrestrial peat and coal give any clue?
2740Would it be worth while to send a corrected copy of the"Courant"to the"Gardeners''Chronicle?"
2740Would it not be better to dye the tail alone and crown of head, so as not to make too great difference?
2740Would it not be truer to say that Nature cares only for the superior individuals and then makes her new and better races?
2740Would it not be worth while to borrow one of these from Sir H. James as a curiosity to hang up?
2740Would not the Atlantic and Antarctic volcanoes be the best examples for you, as there then can be no coral mud to depress the bottom?
2740Would not tubes protrude if placed on parts of column or base of petals, etc., near to the stigma?
2740Would the Royal Agricultural Society be a fitting place?
2740Would there be any chance of your coming to luncheon then?
2740Would you have the kindness to send me word which end of the ovarium is meant by apex( that nearest the flower?
2740Yet how can so experienced an observer as A. be deceived about lateral and terminal moraines?
2740[ February, 1864?]
2740[ congenitally?]
2740], not coinciding in height with the upper one[ outlet?
2740and if so, would you like at some future time to have my few references and notes?
2740and likewise what is the height of the single scattered islands standing between such groups of islands?
2740and whether in the four- stamened forms the pistil is rectangularly bent or is straight?
2740and, if so, do they grow in a new or abnormal direction?
2740can D. Forbes really show the great elevation of Chili?
2740equal, long or short styled?
2740folding one open hand over the other on the lower part of chest( whilst recumbent?)
2740how is the ovarium, especially in the rue?
2740leaves move together towards the apex of leaf?
2740men or women?)
2740moult or when adult?
2740or do the intermediate forms, which are said to connect abroad this species and the bee- orchis, ever there occur?
2740or why should they have survived there more than on the main island, if once connected?
2740plumage, what colours are the wings and tails after the first(?)
2740seen persons( young or old?
2740sloping terraces in the Spean, would not Mr. J. have noticed gigantic moraines across the valley opposite the opening of Lake Treig?
2740the functions of the hairs]?
2740to the name?
2740what would be the result of pure or nearly pure layers of very different mineralogical composition being metamorphosed?
2740which I had undermined on the summit of Ashley Heath, 720(?)
2740who, evincing no great fear, were about to undergo severe operation under chloroform, showing resignation by( alternately?)
2739), and the mountains on W. coast in some degree connect the extra- tropical floras of Cape and Australia? 2739 Can a more striking instance of adaptation be given than that of a woodpecker for climbing trees and seizing insects in the chinks of the bark?"
2739( PLATE: EDWARD FORBES 1844?
2739( Was not R. Brown[ with] Flinders?)
2739(?)
2739), as applied to plants?
2739), the mountains of which must originally have differed from each other in height 8,000( or 10,000?)
2739); in confirmation of this in the same formation I found a large surface of the osseous polygonal plates, which"late observations"( what are they?)
273921 orders with 1 genus, having 7.95 species( or 4.6?).
27399[ 1859?].
2739A shell which I believe is the Gryphaea is the most abundant-- an Ostrea, Turratella, Ammonites, small bivalves, Terebratulae(?).
2739Again, if an imaginary decapod retained, when adult, many Zoea characters, would this not be a case of retardation?
2739America( where nearly the same flora exists as in Canada?)
2739And why does conscience prescribe one kind of action and condemn another kind?
2739Are European birds blown to America?
2739Are the Azorean erratics an established fact?
2739Are the other species of these genera wide rangers?
2739Are the plates from your own drawings?
2739Are there domestic bees?
2739Are these subspecies really characteristic of certain different regions of Germany?
2739Are you not struck by his metaphors and similes?
2739As you care so much for insular floras, are you aware that I collected all in flower on the Abrolhos Islands?
2739At page 189 I quote Henslow( confirmed by Gunther) on Mus messorius( and other species?)
2739But does this hold with South- West Australia or the Cape?
2739But even taking this definition, are you sure that alpine forms are not inherited from one, two, or three generations?
2739But how durst you attack a live bishop in that fashion?
2739But what on earth has a mere suggestion like this to do with meum and tuum?
2739But will not your brother artists scorn you for showing yourself so good an evolutionist?
2739By the way, I met the other day Phillips, the palaeontologist, and he asked me,"How do you define a species?"
2739By the way, have you read Tylor and Lecky?
2739By the way, how comes it that you were not attacked?
2739By what means, then, did illegitimate unions ever become sterile?
2739CHARLES DARWIN, 1854(?).
2739Can Sir Wyville Thomson name any one who has said that the evolution of species depends only on Natural Selection?
2739Can you aid me with any analogous facts?
2739Can you assist me, if you meet any rabbit- fancier?
2739Can you come here for Sunday?
2739Can you illuminate me?
2739Can you not see that this suggests the conclusion that the plants are derived one way and the birds another?
2739Can you refer me to any one or two books( for my power of reading is not great) which would illumine me?
2739Can you remember any such account?
2739Can you tell me( and I will promise to inflict no other question) whether climate explains this greater affinity?
2739Can you think of cases in any one species in genus, or genus in family, with certain parts extra developed, and some adjoining parts reduced?
2739Chelidonium majus,?
2739Could it have been in Eyre''s book?
2739Could you find time to do so soon?
2739Could you make anything out of a history of the great steps in the progress of Botany, as representing the whole of Natural History?
2739Could you not give a few woodcuts in your Travels to illustrate this?
2739Could you not spin a long week out of this examination?
2739Did I tell you how deeply pleased I was with Gray''s notice of my Arctic essay?
2739Did not Bunbury show that some Orders of plants were singularly deficient?
2739Did you collect sea- shells in Kerguelen- land?
2739Did you ever hear of"Condy''s Ozonised Water"?
2739Did you look to this, and can you tell me anything about it?
2739Did you see Mr. Blyth in Calcutta?
2739Do any of these genera cling to seaside?
2739Do any tropical lichens or mosses, or European, withstand heat, or grow on any trees in hothouse at Kew?
2739Do the Gauchos there admit it?
2739Do you agree?
2739Do you consider that a true variety should be produced by causes acting through the parent?
2739Do you ever see Dr. Coldstream?
2739Do you ever see Wollaston?
2739Do you feel sure about the similar absence in the Sandwich group?
2739Do you know any of this"foule"of plants?
2739Do you know its use?...
2739Do you know"Elements de Teratologie( on monsters, I believe) Vegetale,"par A. Moquin Tandon"?
2739Do you make any progress with your journal of travels?
2739Do you not find it takes much time?
2739Do you not mean boreal or arctic plants?
2739Do you not think that the conjugation of the Diatomaceae will ultimately throw light on the subject?
2739Do you see the"Gardeners''Chronicle,"and did you notice some little experiments of mine on salting seeds?
2739Do you think there are many such cases?
2739Does Owen begin to find it more prudent to leave you alone?
2739Does Oxalis corniculata present exactly the same varieties under very different climates?
2739Does a bud ever produce cotyledons or embryonic leaves?
2739Does he suppose the whole of Scotland thus worn down?
2739Does not a very humid climate almost imply( Tyndall) an equable one?
2739Does not some Yankee say that the American viviparous aphides are winged?
2739Does not this sound well?
2739Does the mulberry and magnolia show it is not very cold in winter, which I fear is the case?
2739Does the publisher or do you lose by it?
2739Does the water from this country crop out in springs in Holmsdale or in the valley of the Thames?
2739Down, August 14th[ 1869?]
2739Down, December 1st[ 1858?].
2739Down, December 22nd[ 1866?].
2739Down, December 23rd[ 1866?].
2739Down, January 11th[ 1860?].
2739Down, January 11th[ 1867?].
2739Down, January 7th[ 1867?].
2739Down, June 12th[ 1867?].
2739Down, March 27th[ 1864?].
2739Down, March 5th[ 1860?].
2739Down, May 2nd[ 1856?]
2739Down, May 31st[ 1863?].
2739Down, November 15th[ 1855?].
2739Down, November 25th[ 1862?].
2739Down, September 1st[ 184-?].
2739Down,[ 1857?]
2739Down[ 1857?].
2739Down[ 1858?]
2739Down[ February?]
2739Down[ June?]
2739Down[ June?]
2739Down[ November?]
2739EDWARD FORBES, 1844(?).
2739First, why do I think it obligatory to do my duty?
2739Fumaria officinalis.?
2739HOOKER, 1870?
2739Harvey writes:"You ask-- were all the infinitely numerous kinds of animals and plants created as eggs or seed, or as full grown?
2739Has Lyell been consulted?
2739Has a common rose produced by SEED a moss- rose?
2739Has the action of running water or the sea formed this deep ravine?
2739Have any of the B. Ayrean seeds produced plants?
2739Have you any thoughts of Southampton?
2739Have you anybody in Scotland from whom you could get the seeds?
2739Have you at Kew any Eucalyptus or Australian Mimosa which sets its seeds?
2739Have you begun regularly to write your book on the antiquity of man?
2739Have you ever seen it stated in any sporting work that game has become wilder in this country?
2739Have you ever thought of publishing your travels, and working in them the less abstruse parts of your Natural History?
2739Have you it?
2739Have you kept these seedling peaches?
2739Have you materials to show to what little height it ever ascends the mountains of Java or Sumatra?
2739Have you no reverence for fine lawn sleeves?
2739Have you read Hopkins in the last"Fraser?"
2739Have you seen Bentham''s remarks on species in his address to the Linnean Society?
2739Have you seen Weismann''s pamphlet"Einfluss der Isolirung,"Leipzig, 1872?
2739Have you seen the slashing article of December 26th in the"Daily News,"against my stealing from my"master,"the author of the"Vestiges?"
2739Have you the volume published by Lowe on Madeira?
2739Have you written to Kolliker?
2739Hooker, 1844] to the Athenaeum Club?
2739How are you and all yours?
2739How can this be, if there is no disinclination to crossing?
2739How could vertebrata be predominant under the conditions of life in which parasitic worms live?
2739How do you think I succeeded?
2739How does your journal get on?
2739How is it with any other British plants in New Zealand, or at the foot of the Himalaya?
2739How the devil does he find them out?
2739How would it be to speak to Owen as soon as your own mind is made up?
2739Hurstpierpoint,[ April?]
2739I am collecting all cases of bud- variations, in contradistinction to seed- variations( do you like this term, for what some gardeners call"sports"?
2739I am very glad to hear of your"three- year- old"vigour[?
2739I fear you will think me troublesome in my offer; but have you the second German edition of the"Origin?"
2739I find, however, plenty of difficulty in showing even a vague probability of this; especially in the Leguminosae, though their[ structure?]
2739I have not seen the Duke''s( or Dukelet''s?
2739I perfectly understand and feel the force of your argument in reference to birds per se, but why do these not apply to insects and plants?
2739I presume he made fine sections: if you are accustomed to such histological work, would it not be worth while to examine hairs of tail of mice?
2739I quite agree that the Government ought to have made him long ago, but what does the Government know or care for Science?
2739I really think the formation is in some places( it varies much) nearly 2,000 feet thick, it occurs often with a green( epidote?)
2739I should extremely like to see your reasons published in detail, for it''riles''me( this is a proper expression, is it not?)
2739I should like to hear whether this does not occur with widely ranging insect- genera?
2739I trust you will work out the New Zealand flora, as you have commenced at end of letter: is it not quite an original plan?
2739I wish he had tabulated his results; could you not suggest to him to draw up a paper of such results, comparing these Islands with Madeira?
2739I wonder whether two varieties of wheat could be similarly treated?
2739I write now chiefly to know whether you can tell me how to write to Hermann Schlagenheit( is this spelt right?)
2739If I had to cut up myself in a review I would have[ worried?]
2739If Natural Selection can NOT do this, how do species ever arise, except when a variety is isolated?
2739If any one were to ridicule any belief of the bishop''s, would he not blandly shrug his shoulders and be inexpressibly shocked?
2739If the view does not apply to animals, will it suffice for man?
2739If you do, would you give him my kind remembrances?
2739If you have written, I must wait, and in this case will you kindly let me hear as soon as you hear from Kolliker?
2739In a letter to Darwin, December 21st(?
2739In a letter to Hooker, May 22nd, 1860, Darwin wrote:"Have you Pyrola at Kew?
2739In a plant in a state of nature, does cutting off the sap tend to produce flower- buds?
2739In other words, why attribute to them conscious aesthetic qualities at all?
2739In the third column have you really materials to speak of confirming the proportion of winged and wingless insects on islands?
2739Is East Asia nearly as well known as West America?
2739Is it a book?
2739Is it a good book, and will it treat on hereditary malconformations or varieties?
2739Is it not an extraordinary fact, the great difference in position of the heart in different species of Cleodora?
2739Is it not grand the way in which the Bishop asserts that all such facts are explained by ideas in God''s mind?
2739Is it not opposed quite to the case of Teneriffe and Madeira, and Mediterranean Islands?
2739Is it not probable that guest- flies were aboriginally gall- makers, and bear the same relation to them which Apathus probably does to Bombus?
2739Is it true that female Primula plants always produce females by parthenogenesis?
2739Is not Verbenaceae very closely allied to Labiatae?
2739Is not a very clever man a grade above a very dull one?
2739Is not the similarity of plants of Kerguelen Land and southern S. America very curious?
2739Is the difference due to denudation during elevation?
2739Is the hair of your horse at all curly?
2739Is there any Abstract or Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society published?
2739Is there any instance in the northern hemisphere of plants being similar at such great distances?
2739Is there any truth in this suspicion?
2739Is this not like the Viola case?
2739Is this not so?
2739Is this not so?
2739Is this owing to the summits having existed from the most ancient times as open downs and the valleys having been filled up with brushwood?
2739Is this so?
2739It is poetry, and can I say anything more severe?
2739It might be asked why is development so all- potent in classification, as I fully admit it is?
2739JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, 1870(?).
2739June 27th[ 1863?]
2739Lecture VI., page 151, line 7 from top-- wetting FEET or bodies?
2739March 25th[ 1844?
2739May I keep the lists now returned?
2739Moor Park, Farnham, Surrey[ 1857?].
2739Must the mere precedence rigorously outweigh the apparent opinion of many old naturalists?
2739My God, is not the case difficult enough, without its being, as I must think, falsely made more difficult?
2739My wife asked,"How did he find that it stayed four hours under water without breathing?"
2739Naudin,"Revue Horticole,"1852?.
2739Now I have five or six other copies to distribute, and will you be so very kind as to help me?
2739Now, did any almond grow near your mother peach?
2739Now, do you agree thus far?
2739Now, does this occur with buds or do only rather strongly marked varieties thus appear at rare intervals of time by buds?
2739Now, is it worth while to go on at this length of detail?
2739Now, will you have the kindness to tell me how I can learn to see the error of my ways?
2739Of course he is quite at liberty to scorn and hate me, but why take such trouble to express something more than friendship?
2739Of the 89 Dezertas insects[ only?]
2739Of these naturalised plants are any or many more variable in your opinion than the average of your United States plants?
2739On the other hand,[ have] not the Sandwich Islands in the Northern Hemisphere some odd relations to Australia?
2739Or does it tend to atheism or pantheism?"
2739P.S.--Will you by silence give consent to the following?
2739Page 143: ought not"Sanscrit"to be"Aryan"?
2739Papaver dubium,?
2739Published in Mr. Clodd''s memoir of Bates in the"Naturalist on the Amazons,"1892, page l.) What do you mean by"individual plants"?
2739Review?"
2739Second, why do I think it my duty to do this and not do that?
2739See Falconer at the bottom of page 80: it is the old difficulty-- how can variability co- exist with persistence of type?
2739Shall we have the pleasure of seeing you there?
2739Shall you attend the Council of the Royal Society on Thursday next?
2739Shall you return through England?
2739Shall you think me impertinent( I am sure I do not mean to be so) if I hazard a remark on the style, which is of more importance than some think?
2739Should I send it to Bell?
2739Should you object offering for me this reward or payment to your little girls?
2739Since writing to you I have had more correspondence with the master of hounds, and I see his[ record?]
2739Supposing Greenland were repeopled from Scandinavia over ocean way, why should Carices be the chief things brought?
2739Surely, can not an overwhelming mass of facts be brought against such a proposition?
2739Thank you for the Aristolochia and Viscum cases: what species were they?
2739The article begins with the following question:"First Reader-- Is Darwin''s theory atheistic or pantheistic?
2739The conviction that I was on the Tertiary strata was so strong by this time in my mind, that on the third day in the midst of lavas and[?
2739The experiment seems to me worth trying: what do you think?
2739The latter strikes me thus: why should plants and insects have been so extensively changed and birds not at all?
2739The two words marked[?]
2739This is a comfortable arrangement, is it not?"
2739This letter goes the same way, so that if in course of due time you do not receive the box, will you be kind enough to write to Falmouth?
2739To this it is sufficient to reply, was your primordial organism, or were your four or five progenitors created as egg, seed, or full grown?
2739Was the flesh at all sweet?
2739Was there anything to show that the stigma was ready for pollen in these two cases?
2739What are you doing now?
2739What can be the meaning or use of the great diversity of the external generative organs in your cases, in Bombus, and the phytophagous coleoptera?
2739What can there be in the act of copulation necessitating such complex and diversified apparatus?
2739What do you think?
2739What does Austen make the date of the Channel?--ante or post Glacial?"
2739What good would their perfected senses and their intellect serve under such conditions?
2739What makes H. Watson a renegade?
2739What was it?
2739What will the end be?
2739When is your great work to make its appearance?
2739When shall I see a memoir on Insular floras, and on the Pacific?
2739Where is it published?
2739Where, then, was the edge or coast- line of it, Atlantic- wards?
2739Why could not you come over, on the urgent invitation given to European savans-- and free passage provided back and forth in the steamers?
2739Why did he not put his facts before us, and let them rest?''"
2739Why do the plants of Porto Santo and Madeira agree so nearly?
2739Why do we obey conscience or feel pain in disobeying it?
2739Why do you not let me buy the Indian Flora?
2739Why has nobody thought of trying the experiment before, instead of taking it for granted that salt water kills seeds?
2739Why should the one class of phenomena be without end or utility, a mere effect of contingency or chance, more than the other?"
2739Why should you or I speak of variation as having been ordained and guided, more than does an astronomer, in discussing the fall of a meteoric stone?
2739Will Owen answer you?
2739Will they pay at the Royal Institution for copying on a large size drawings of these birds?
2739Will you be so kind as to read the enclosed, and return it to me?
2739Will you endeavour to screw out time and grant me this favour?
2739Will you grant me the favour of giving me any clue, where I could see the book?
2739Will you just tell me roughly the result?
2739Will you look through these printed lists, and if you can, mark with red cross such as you would suggest?
2739Will you not come next year, if a special invitation is sent you on the same terms?
2739Will you receive it, and it could be left at my brother''s?
2739Will you some time have to examine the Chalk and its junction with London Clay and Greensand?
2739Will you think over this and let me hear the result?
2739With respect to areas with numerous"individually durable"forms, can it be said that they generally present a"broken"surface with"impassable barriers"?
2739With respect to naturalised plants: are any social with you, which are not so in their parent country?
2739Without going into any details, is not this a strong general argument?
2739Would Lindley hear of and dislike being proposed for the Copley and not succeeding?
2739Would it not be a good rebuff to ask him how he knows there were trees at all on the leafless plains of La Plata for his Mylodons to tear down?
2739Would it not be better on this view to propose him for the Royal?
2739Would it not be very interesting to know how the gall- makers behaved with respect to these hybrids?
2739Would it not be well for you to put yourself in communication with him, as otherwise something will perhaps be twice laboured over?
2739Would it not pay for a collector to go there, especially if aided by any subscription?
2739Would not my argument about wingless insular insects perhaps apply to truly Alpine insects?
2739Would not the southern end of Chiloe make a good division for you?
2739Would this be in time?
2739Would you believe it?
2739Would you kindly answer me two or three questions if in your power?
2739Would you not call this theological pedantry or display?
2739Yet who could discover it?
2739You also forget an author who, by means of atolls, contrived to submerge archipelagoes( or continents?
2739You ask about the skipping of the Zoea stage in fresh- water decapods: is this an illustration of acceleration?
2739You have, however, Ranunculus repens, Ranunculus parviflorus, Papaver rhoeas,?
2739You may say, Then why trouble me?
2739You speak as if only land- shells differed in Madeira and Porto Santo: does my memory deceive me that there is a host of representative insects?
2739You speak of evergreen vegetation as leading to few or confined conditions; but is not evergreen vegetation connected with humid and equable climate?
2739Your fact of greater number of European plants( N.B.--But do you mean greater percentage?)
2739Your oak and chestnut case seems very curious; is it not the more so as beeches have gone to, or come from the south?
2739[ 1862?]
2739[ July?, 1841?].
2739[ July?, 1841?].
2739]); and is it right to include American islands like Juan Fernandez and Galapagos?
2739a large body of considerations on the other side, that this genus could not have been slowly accustomed to a cooler climate?
2739and Java belong to the same botanical region-- i.e., that they have many non- littoral species in common?
2739and is it not very surprising that New Zealand, so much nearer to Australia than South America, should have an intermediate flora?
2739and would not the accumulation of a large number of slight differences of this kind lead to a great difference in the grade of organisation?
2739for distant[?]
2739for would it not be destruction to them to be blown from their proper home?
2739has surprised me much; do you not think it odd, the fewness of peculiar species, and their rarity on the alpine heights?
2739how at the first start of life, when there were only the simplest organisms, how did any complication of organisation profit them?
2739how can you speak so of a living real Duke?)
2739if not, perhaps I had better close with this proposal-- what do you think?
2739if so, and the case is given briefly, would you have the great kindness to copy it?
2739in the"Scotsman"( lent me by Horner)?
2739incidentally mentioned in a letter to me that the heaths at the Cape of Good Hope were very variable, whilst in Europe they are(?)
2739is inimitably adapted to favour crossing, I have never yet met with but one instance of a NATURAL MONGREL( nor mule?)
2739not founded on mere artificial characters?
2739of years had elapsed, and after such migration to milder seas?
2739or can you explain in one or two sentences how I err?
2739or is it because no chasms or boundaries can be drawn separating the many species?
2739or is it one of the many utterly inexplicable problems in botanical geography?
2739so that does the state of knowledge allow a pretty fair comparison?
2739surely does not Madeira abound with peculiar forms?
2739the lecture]?
2739together again; but had you not better wait till they are a little cooled?
2739was ordained and"guided by an intelligent cause?"
2739were found in most parts) in their respective countries?
2739which lie nearest to the continent have a much stronger African character than the others, ought you not just to allude to this?
2739with seed in its crop, and it would swim?"
2739with this reflection,"What is the good of writing a thundering big book, when everything is in this green little book, so despicable for its size?"