Is "almost certain" plant is Menispermum canadense.
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Is "almost certain" plant is Menispermum canadense.
CD’s health remains bad and as he grows older he becomes weaker.
Gives permission to insert in his magazine anything from CD’s works.
Declines, regretfully, to contribute to or to have his name appear on a new magazine.
Sends a copy of the paper [with A. R. Wallace, "On the tendency of species to form varieties" (1858), Collected papers 2: 3–19] about which his correspondent asked; CD’s parts were written years ago and not intended for publication; he gave permission for publication of the extracts. Wallace’s paper seems to him excellent.
Thanks correspondent for a remarkable instance of inheritance [not specified].
Has read correspondent’s notice on bent cleavage. Refers him to observations on the same fact in South America, p. 160. CD has also suggested a conjectural explanation.
"As I have never especially attended to Conchology I am sorry to say I cannot tell you the name of the enclosed shell which I now return–"
Thanks for a book. "I am so much overworked at present that I cannot read it now, & I am a very poor German scholar".
"With Mr. Charles Darwin’s compliments enclosing one guinea."
Thanks for references about dogs. Fears work will not allow him to deal with subject again. Heartily subscribes to what correspondent says about qualities of dogs. Loves his "with all my heart".
[Provides directions for travel to Down by train.]
Asks that enclosed letter be posted for him.
Is glad addressee’s lectures are going well.
Ray Society has given CD 22 copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1].
Should like to examine the correspondent’s Madeira cirripedes but is too much occupied with other subjects of natural history.
Requests skins of domestic breeds or races of poultry, pigeons, rabbits, cats, and dogs from any unfrequented region. [Attached is a list of people to whom CD has written for pigeon and poultry skins.]
Thanks for offer of Helix for experiment. Asks for assistance. Mentions failure of his own experiment involving Helix pomatia.
Returns the Greenland catalogue, which he has kept too long.
Questions about stripes on mules.