Wants his fowl MS.
Will shortly return WBT’s skulls.
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Wants his fowl MS.
Will shortly return WBT’s skulls.
Asks for return of page about pigeon crossing.
Asks for WBT’s help in arranging for woodcuts to illustrate pigeon chapters of Variation.
Arrangements for woodcuts for Variation.
WBT’s excellent article on crossing.
Instructions for Luke Wells about woodcuts for Variation.
Fowl MS has arrived safely.
Sends pigeon MS for WBT’s perusal.
Further instructions for Luke Wells.
Has lost time through illness.
Suggests an experiment to see whether the progeny of a pigeon cross are affected by a previous impregnation.
Will return page on pigeons.
Has concluded his crossing experiments and found no trace of hybrid sterility or loss of fertility.
The Field is publishing a series of papers on different pigeon varieties [24 (1864): 366, 395, 459; 25 (1865): 115, 139, 155, 228, 258].
Encloses some poultry feathers.
Will read over and return CD’s MS on fowls. Has been delayed by an eye injury.
Sends copies of the Field containing all the pigeon articles [see 4785].
Luke Wells will undertake engravings for Variation.
WBT’s eye is getting on very well.
Enclosure comments on a note to folio 1 [of CD’s MS on variation], WBT thinks his works not worth citing: his edition of the Poultry book was never completed and Profitable poultry is out of print.
MS [of CD’s pigeon chapter] arrived safely.
Pigeon and poultry engravings [for Variation].
WBT will try experiment for CD if Mr Zurhorst cannot do it.