Asks PLS to sign the memorial for a pension for Wallace.
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Asks PLS to sign the memorial for a pension for Wallace.
Encloses paper [by W. Van Dyck] for publication by the Zoological Society ["On Syrian street dogs", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1882): 367–70].
CD has signed the enclosed with great pleasure.
Thanks PLS for list of Galapagos birds.
Mentions note he will add to Journal [of researches (1860)]
and correction he will make in Origin [3d ed. (1861)].
Asks PLS about variability in "abnormal parts of birds".
Thanks PLS for information about variation in birds. Asks for more information.
Asks for a rabbit specimen;
inquires about a hybrid hare–rabbit.
Promises to send copy of Origin [3d ed.].
Is pleased that PLS has "become ""heretical"" on species".
Asks about distribution of Gallus and about description of Gallus temminckii, G. R. Gray.
Asks about species of Opetiorhynchus.
CD is unable to locate his specimens of two Falkland Island birds [Opetiorhynchus].
Discusses feral rabbits of Porto Santo. Arranges for care of rabbits while the Darwins visit Torquay.
Asks for information about japanned peacocks from Hudson [John Henry?] Gurney’s flock.
Asks for information about peacocks, especially Pavo nigripennis. Suggests a crossing experiment.
Discussion of ducks. CD asks for information on a domestic Chinese race about which Robert Swinhoe wrote to CD. Compares Chinese duck with Anas poecilorhyncha and Boschas.
Notes improvement in health.
Encloses a portion of a letter from B. D. Walsh [5319] concerning an American interested in exchanging birds’ skins.
Asks for index to Zoological Society’s Proceedings.
Mentions article on "Barbets" by PLS in Intellectual Observer [12 (1867–8): 241–6].
Bird specimens collected by Capt. P. P. King eventually went to British Museum, but many specimens were incorrectly marked.
Encloses, for publication, note about Pampas woodpecker, opposing W. H. Hudson [see 7354].
Asks PLS whether he will look over list of names of birds [for Descent] to make sure they are spelled correctly. "I have a most unfortunate weakness … to copy proper names incorrectly".
Thanks PLS for his generous offer to go over the part on birds [in Descent]. Does not think PLS realises that there are more than 200 pages – most of which will have nothing new for him.
W. H. Hudson’s proofs have arrived ["Letters on the ornithology of Buenos Ayres", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1870): 87–9, 158–60, 332–4, 545–50, 671–3, 748–50, 798–82; (1871): 4–7, 258–62, 326–9].