Regrets not seeing HD at Oxford meeting [of BAAS].
He may keep duplicates of parasitic insects from CD’s collection. Lyell has collected Pediculi for HD from Negroes in North America.
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Regrets not seeing HD at Oxford meeting [of BAAS].
He may keep duplicates of parasitic insects from CD’s collection. Lyell has collected Pediculi for HD from Negroes in North America.
Discusses sending HD lice specimens. Asks him to check with G. R. Waterhouse.
Dicussion of some specimens from the Beagle voyage.
Sends HD a reference to human lice from Charles White 1799.
Discusses intestinal worms among humans.
Comments on origin of human races.
Sends four packets of lice and suggests writing to Dr A. Smith, "the S. African traveller", for assistance.
Can hardly believe he made a mistake in specimens sent to HD. Recopies numbers in case he transposed them. [Has to do with lice taken from a specimen of aperea and put into spirits during Beagle voyage.]
Discusses HD’s information that same species of birds at remote stations have identical parasites. Urges him to investigate N. American land-bird parasites.
Is deeply interested in everything connected with geographical distribution, and the differences between species and varieties.