Is preparing new edition of Variation and has a query on speed of racehorses.

Thanks for answer to racehorse query;

would be grateful for correction of any errors in Variation.

Thanks ADB for Limulus.

Does Callithrix sciureus wrinkle the skin around its eyes when it screams? Do the eyes become suffused with moisture?

WBT may use any of CD’s material for the new edition of his poultry book. Hopes WBT will keep firmly to his idea of working out pigeon variation.

Has read the Field review of Descent ["Darwin on the descent of man", 37 (1871): 210]. Thanks WBT for his remarks.

One of WBT’s poultry skulls has been misplaced; CD cannot believe he neglected to return it.

Asks whether any goose sifts water with its beak.

Thanks for goose specimens.

Asks whether Egyptian goose throws water out of side of beak. Can it tear herbage like the domestic goose?

[Mistakenly dated 16 Sept by CD.]

Sends photograph of himself for a proposed memoir in correspondent’s Review.

Can ADB allow T. W. Wood to sketch one of his dogs in hostile and friendly positions?

Do elephants in the Zoological Gardens carry tails aloft when excited?

Thanks for information on sexual colours in pigeons.

Will send latest edition of Origin.

Thanks for gift of WBT’s book [Pheasants for coverts and aviaries (1873)].

Thanks for strange debate, which CD returns. Principle of evolution has first-rate supporters in [Edward Sylvester?] Morse and Theodore Nicholas Gill.

Has not seen number of Botanical Bulletin with account of Apocynum.

Do breeders rear more male than female greyhound puppies?

Thanks for answering his query on greyhound puppies.

Many thanks for Boddaert [see 9389].

CD agrees to subscribe to reprint of Blyth’s Field articles on cranes.