Thanks JSB for his information about coloured grapes, but asks that he take no further trouble.
Thanks JSB for his information about coloured grapes, but asks that he take no further trouble.
Submits a 15–point argument against CD’s views on the coloration of female birds and insects.
JM will send another copy of Variation to B. D. Walsh.
Thanks JDC for paper ["American Cervus", Trans. Ottawa Acad. Nat. Sci. (1868); read 21 May 1868].
Thanks correspondent for gift of game and sends remembrances to his father [John Higgins]. Would like to visit Alford and Beesby, but fears he will have neither time nor strength.
Remembers when JH introduced him to the Museum of Geology in Jermyn St.. Would like to exchange some rocks and minerals for some English fossils. Can JH advise him to whom to write?
Lays out his argument in response to Darwin's views on the colouration of females, in general terms and then specifically in relation to butterflies.