Thanks for information about natural increase of Chillingham cattle. Compares with case in Paraguay.
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Thanks for information about natural increase of Chillingham cattle. Compares with case in Paraguay.
Thanks W. H. Fitch for drawing for the Primula paper. Death of experimental plants delays publication.
Sends three tables on the known geological distribution of genera and subgenera of Brachiopoda. Has been continually puzzled by intermediate forms, and is convinced that the greater number of species can be linked together. "Natura non facit saltum."
Asks how many wild Chillingham cattle are killed each year. Interested in rate of increase.
Sends some replies to CD’s queries and data on pigeon flights between Bordeaux and Verviers.
CD is obliged for the offer, but he is "too much occupied to contribute to any periodicals".
Sends data on numbers of "wild" cattle in the herd on the estate of Lord Tankerville that have been killed by fighting, accidents, etc. He does not perceive that the cattle have diminished in size.
Discusses family and domestic matters.
Henslow’s long suffering.
Donald Beaton’s articles in Cottage Gardener clever but not to be trusted.
Henslow’s death.
What a contrast C. C. Babington will be as Professor of Botany at Cambridge.
Beaton not to be trusted.
CD may switch from Athenæum to London Review & Wkly J. Polit.
CD’s doubts on biography of Henslow. Writing recollections of Cambridge days at JDH’s request.
Has heard, through Lubbock, of a gentleman who is offering a partnership in a bank.
Discusses the possibility of a banking job for William [Darwin]; wishes to meet JL to discuss the prospects.
Discusses the opportunity for WED to become a partner in a bank.
Requests that exotic species of Vinca, which never set seed at Kew, be fertilised by pressing a fine bristle between anthers as a moth would its proboscis.
Asks that Primula farinosa be sent.
Thanks for railway map.
Surprised about Richard Owen: "I thought his courage was as indomitable as his malignity."
Sends extract [Sir John Herschel, "Physical geography", from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1861)].
[Queries in CD’s hand answered on same pages by WBT.] Sexual selection of fowls; role of beauty in cocks.
Sexual behaviour of fowls.
Has written recollections of Henslow [Collected papers 2: 72–4].