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Requests a quart of distilled water for photography to be sent in a clean bottle via the postman on the following day.
Hybrid varieties of pheasant and common fowl. Reply to CD queries.
Writes of the extension to Down House.
Is glad WED is in the sixth [form]. Discusses WED’s intention to become a barrister.
Recommends he read passages on bees by C. T. E. von Siebold [in On the true parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1857)].
Will be grateful for facts from Mr Linton on numbers of eggs from goldfinch–canary crosses.
Have all varieties been bred from the same set of eggs so that there can be no doubt they are all the same species?
CD finds Alphonse de Candolle very useful, though JDH has low opinion.
CD argues for accidental introductions explaining some odd distributions, e.g., New Zealand vs Australian plants.
CD’s method.
Diverging affinities in isolated genera.
Thanks AG for 2d part of "Statistics [of the flora of the northern U. S.", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 22 (1856): 204–32; 2d ser. 23 (1857): 62–84, 369–403].
Is glad AG concludes species of large genera are wide-ranging, but is "riled" that he thinks the line of connection of alpine plants is through Greenland. Mentions comparisons of ranges worth investigating.
Believes trees show a tendency toward separation of the sexes and wonders if U. S. species bear this out. Asks which genera are protean in U. S.
Sexes of algae.
Congratulations [on Mrs H’s delivery].
Balanus balanoides positively identified by CD.
Thanks for a kind note, and asks not to answer until better.
Thanks for information, which is just the amount he wanted.
Will not go to the BAAS meeting in Dublin: the frightful voyage deters him.
Will attend to any subject in Jamaica about which CD wants information.
Crithagra brasiliensis and canary refused to pair.
A collection of Jamaican land Mollusca will be presented to the British Museum.
Hurricanes are a considerable influence on diffusion of birds and insects.