CD’s plans have changed. He will be in London the following week and therefore able to call on correspondent.
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CD’s plans have changed. He will be in London the following week and therefore able to call on correspondent.
Requests priced samples of paper for mounting dried plants.
Sends his thanks for a kind letter; he has copied out the last sentence of the Origin.
Is "almost certain" plant is Menispermum canadense.
CD’s health remains bad and as he grows older he becomes weaker.
Did not think anyone would notice case of Lathyrus.
Recalls reading correspondent’s paper on great fir woods of Hampshire.
Thanks for photograph.
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–"
Glad correspondent’s paper went well.
Poor health and much work forces CD to be brief.
Wishes to know the correct name for the British Museum’s specimen of an Abyssinian wolf described by Wilhelm Rueppell, Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien [1835–40] .
Has reread JDH’s paper ["On the functions of the rostellum of Listera ovata", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 144 (1854): 259–64].
Difficulty of distinguishing varieties and species. Did HCW suggest a printed list that might help?
Polymorphic genera.
Discusses measurements of bees’ cells. Describes modification in structure of Melipona hive. Notes importance of natural selection.
Asks for information about birds eating berries of a mountain-ash.
Sends cheque.
Interested by HD’s information on aperea; CD had concluded that it was not the progenitor of domestic guinea-pigs.
Is unsure what HD means by "stock-dove"; properly this is Columba oenas and the domestic pigeon is C. livia.
Suggests that the Zoological Society might arrange for some specimens [unspecified] to be supplied from the Gardens.