Shot a sandpiper in Norway, the hind toe of which was clasped by a freshwater bivalve.
Sends replies to CD’s queries about sex ratios in humming-birds.
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Shot a sandpiper in Norway, the hind toe of which was clasped by a freshwater bivalve.
Sends replies to CD’s queries about sex ratios in humming-birds.
Preference of females for particular males certainly exists occasionally.
On the proportion of males to females in horses and in dogs.
Testimonial for James Archer, who leaves CD’s service after six months.
A cheque written out for FD has never been presented to CD’s bankers.
Progress of CD’s order for certain books.
Resigns curacy of Down.
Thinks SJOH is right not to return to Down. Asks him to forward certain documents. Hopes final arrangements will soon be made for a resident clergyman in Down.
Plumage of canaries; changes in plumage with successive moults.
Suggests variation in seed-covering membranes as a cause of variation in plants.
Sends specimens of Coleoptera.
Quotes from W. F. Erichson [Naturgeschichte der Insecten Deutschlands 3: 927] on stridulating organs in Trox.
Describes work with pollinia of another Orchis species.
Horrified to find he has forgotten to announce birth of daughter.
Congratulations on birth of daughter. CD used to dread birth-time.
Sexual selection has turned out to be a large subject.
Will answer CD’s queries when he returns home in a month.
Reports case of black retriever that always burrows in earth before giving birth and keeps pups in hole thereafter. CD’s book says this habit rare.
F. Müller’s corrections warrant stating that the English translation has "additions and corrections by the author".
Is gratified to hear his index [to Variation] is considered a good one.
Ernst Haeckel’s book [Generelle Morphologie (1868)], though speculative, strikes him as "one of the most remarkable books of our time".
Writes about difficulties in which S. J. O. Horsman, curate at Down, has involved himself and others. Horsman has said he would resign. JBI offers to give up his interests in the living at Down.
Sends second lot of grass grown from locust dung pellets from Natal.
Variation in recent leonine skeletons.
Miocene fauna of Europe.
Has been looking at the school accounts. Has any interest been paid to S. J. O’H. Horsman this year? CD will keep accounts temporarily; he has not yet received from Horsman the balance in hand from last year.