Signs Robert Swinhoe’s certificate [for the Royal Society] with pleasure.
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Signs Robert Swinhoe’s certificate [for the Royal Society] with pleasure.
Comments on several points in Descent,
doubts facts about Monacanthus brushes
and the two Cyprinidae males attending the female when spawning.
Thanks for recent edition of CD’s Journal of researches.
Has been appointed to a Keepership at British Museum.
Has signed certificates.
His specimen catalogue has not been returned from Cambridge museum. If not lost, will answer query.
Discusses spider specimens.
Pigeons’ skins dispatched today.
Sends MS about pigeons.
Thanks AG for his kind note and returns his good wishes.
Anxious that AG should consider a memorial [for A. R. Wallace]. Makes arrangements to avoid delay.
Sends memorial [for A. R. Wallace] for AG to sign. Asks whether AG will forward it to Owen; CD cannot send it as he has not spoken to him for 20 years.
Asks how he can obtain a Museum post for his late brother’s butler, F. W. Surman.
Discusses position [at British Museum]. "My case is hopeless as my man [F. W. Surman] is 31 years old."
Reports on the snakes he collected in the Galapagos.
Sends his photograph.
Asks for any information of well-marked sexual differences in snakes, batrachians, or lizards. The rattlesnakes at the Zoological Garden differ considerably in colour.
Thanks AG for information.
Asks AG for details of variation in patterning of the banded snake.
Sends a list of queries for AG.
Asks whether AG can supply specimens for illustrations [for Descent]. Hopes Mr Ford will do the drawings.
Is "astonished & deeply grieved" at loss [of AG’s wife].