GHKT should not take more trouble about human expression. Discusses contraction of orbicular muscles in elephants.
Asks about colour of first plumage of breeds of Ceylon fowls in which hens alone are coloured.
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GHKT should not take more trouble about human expression. Discusses contraction of orbicular muscles in elephants.
Asks about colour of first plumage of breeds of Ceylon fowls in which hens alone are coloured.
GHKT is going to procure some local smoke-coloured fowls and investigate them for CD.
Encloses letter on expression queries from S. O. Glenie.
Has black-boned cocks and hens that show the characteristic that Edgar Layard thought peculiar to the female line. Will provide any particulars that CD wants.
Thanks GHKT and S. O. Glenie for information about fowls.
Asks him to thank E. L. Layard for trouble taken.
Says Zoological Society "very foolishly" wants no specimens of domestic varieties [from Ceylon].
On local black-boned fowls,
CD’s new book [Variation], and Pangenesis.
Encloses Queries about expression.
Relates some observations on the expression of elephants; they do not cry unless the eye is hurt or struck. "Perhaps Mr Darwin will like to know the above."
Discusses experiments in breeding fowls.
Comments on letter from S. O. Glenie [see 6440] concerning the eyes of trumpeting elephants.