Progress of CD’s order for certain books.
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Progress of CD’s order for certain books.
Resigns curacy of Down.
Plumage of canaries; changes in plumage with successive moults.
Suggests variation in seed-covering membranes as a cause of variation in plants.
Sends specimens of Coleoptera.
Quotes from W. F. Erichson [Naturgeschichte der Insecten Deutschlands 3: 927] on stridulating organs in Trox.
Describes work with pollinia of another Orchis species.
Horrified to find he has forgotten to announce birth of daughter.
Will answer CD’s queries when he returns home in a month.
Reports case of black retriever that always burrows in earth before giving birth and keeps pups in hole thereafter. CD’s book says this habit rare.
F. Müller’s corrections warrant stating that the English translation has "additions and corrections by the author".
Is gratified to hear his index [to Variation] is considered a good one.
Ernst Haeckel’s book [Generelle Morphologie (1868)], though speculative, strikes him as "one of the most remarkable books of our time".
Preference of females for particular males certainly exists occasionally.
On the proportion of males to females in horses and in dogs.
Writes about difficulties in which S. J. O. Horsman, curate at Down, has involved himself and others. Horsman has said he would resign. JBI offers to give up his interests in the living at Down.
Variation in recent leonine skeletons.
Miocene fauna of Europe.
Will get name of grass [see 6243] from Gen. William Munro.
Has heard from Charles Wheatstone that CD has Prussian Order of Merit. Rejoices because it is the only distinction worth a fig.
Went to Handel festival; heard Messiah.
Went to poor old N. B. Ward’s funeral.
Again thanks CD for trouble in arranging for translation of Für Darwin.
Sends addition answering critics of his idea of insect metamorphosis [see Möller ed. 1915–21, 1: 259].
Agrees with Charles Lyell’s suggested English title "Facts and arguments in favor of Darwin", although perhaps more accurate to call it "Darwinism tested by Carcinology" or "Carcinology as bearing on the origin of species".
Says any profit should go to CD for his trouble and expense with the translation.
Thanks for seeds of Eschscholtzia.
Gives observations on number of climbing plants, including Dilleniacea, Marantacea, Catasetum.
Coloration of linnets.
Sexual behaviour of black hen bullfinch.
Further discussion of the difficulties with S. J. O’H. Horsman [curate at Down].
JL’s Royal Institution lectures.
Shot a sandpiper in Norway, the hind toe of which was clasped by a freshwater bivalve.
Sends replies to CD’s queries about sex ratios in humming-birds.
The grass [see 6243] is Sporobolus elongatus, common in the tropics.
Visit to Oxford with X Club.
On his forthcoming address.