Horned rams of Guinea sheep.
CD’s queries about expression are too difficult for him to answer.
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Horned rams of Guinea sheep.
CD’s queries about expression are too difficult for him to answer.
Loss of juvenile colouring in South Down sheep.
List giving the numbers of Lepidoptera of different species reared in 1869 and the proportions of the sexes [see Descent 1: 313].
Discusses the bristling of hair in melancholics and the action of the platysma myoides muscle and the grief muscles in the insane.
Note on proportion of sexes born in sheep.
Will use new English edition [5th, of Origin] in preparing for [4th] German edition. Bronn’s translation of Origin in the title as "Entstehung" is not so precise as "Ursprung" would be. The publisher does not object to changing the title, but JVC is doubtful, because the Origin is so well known in Germany as Entstehung. Asks CD’s opinion.
Account of his Russian trip.
Glad JTM intends to write a paper. Discusses JTM’s research on Arbutus.
CD’s riding accident.
Ashamed that members of the Entomological Society have almost no information on sex ratio of bred insects in response to CD’s query of months ago. One exception, William Buckler, promises results. [See Descent 1: 313.]
Thanks for information about expression.
Comments on JC-B’s photographs of insane people.
Sends copy of Duchenne [see 6755].
Asks for further information about platysma, his bête noire for a year or two.
Observations on birds entering the country in spring. Some have clods of earth on their feet.
Frankfurt Zoological Garden has only male mandrill. Does CD want description? Antwerp garden may have a pair.
Sends CD a copy of his new book Sismopirologia [1869]. Is sending no other copy to England because his previous book was unacknowledged.
On proportion of sexes in litters of dogs.
The house at Barmouth.
His poor health.
Bentham’s interesting Linnean Society Address ["On geographical biology", Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1869): lxv–c].
CD particularly wishes to know how botanists agreed with zoologists on distribution.
Still thinks isolation more important in preserving old forms than Bentham is inclined to believe.
Reports having seen a very human-looking monkey on exhibit. Gives a phrenological analysis of its skull.
Asks whether sexual selection could produce the changing plumules or "battledore" scales on the wings of certain butterflies.
Thanks for presentation copy of Origin [5th ed.].
Clarifies his point on north and south glacial periods. Supports CD’s view that temperate plants will move up mountains during the alternation.
Recounts the trip back from St Petersburg – visits to botanic gardens and museums throughout Western Europe.
Pleased that CD admired Bentham’s address [see 6793]. JDH had read it in MS and modified some very heterodox passages about insularity. CD has hit the flaw in it.
F. A. W. Miquel is a convert.
Testimonial letter for ERL, praising his ability, knowledge, and zeal for science.