Note accompanying MS of part of chapter 11 ["Geographical distribution"] of Natural selection [1975].
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Note accompanying MS of part of chapter 11 ["Geographical distribution"] of Natural selection [1975].
Agrees with JDH that Cytisus report [presumably of a large change] not sound. CD pleased because, if true, species would change too quickly.
Responds to CD’s queries on Sierra Leone: fertility of European animals introduced to W. Africa, relationship of health and complexion of Europeans, etc.
CD coming to London.
Read JDH’s review [Hooker’s Kew J. Bot. 8 (1856): 54–64 et seq.] of Alphonse de Candolle’s Géographie botanique raisonnée [1855] long ago.
CD sorry he had to leave the Hookers abruptly to catch his train.
Comments on JL’s paper on Daphnia, ["An account of methods of reproduction in Daphnia and of the structure of the ephippium", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 79–100].
The bearer has called for the books. Requests volumes of Isis for 1828 and 1829.