Testimonial for James Archer, who leaves CD’s service after six months.
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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.
Requests 50 copies of his paper ["Offspring of illegitimate unions of di- and trimorphic plants", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 393–437].
Encloses some queries.
Would also like information about proportion of male to female humming-birds.
Reference to OS’s paper in Ibis, vol. 2.
Progress of CD’s order for certain books.
Resigns curacy of Down.
Is glad FM approves of a translation of Für Darwin.
Hopes FM will think well of Pangenesis.
Sexual differences in insect auditory and stridulating organs.
Read FM’s paper on Balanus with great interest ["On Balanus armatus", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 1 (1868): 393–412].
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.
As JS’s powers of observation seem to exist in all lines, CD begs further information from him and [H. N. B.] Erskine about the natives’ expressions of indignation, affirmation, and negation. The movements of the eyebrows and forehead of a girl in violent grief are of particular interest.
Do sub-breeds of pigeons exist in India as in Europe, but not in England? If so, what is the colour of the plumage in males and females at different stages of development?
Suggests variation in seed-covering membranes as a cause of variation in plants.
Asks about camouflage of birds in the Sahara desert.
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.
"I have seen the action on Ophrys exactly as you describe and am thoroughly ashamed of my inaccuracy."
Horrified to find he has forgotten to announce birth of daughter.
Sorry JJW cannot visit.
Will go to sea-side for five weeks at end of July.
Does Vidua have double annual moult? [See Descent 2: 181.]
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.
Discusses possible English translation of A. E. Brehm’s [Illustrirtes] Thierleben [1864–9].
Asks for permission to use 15 of Brehm’s illustrations [in Descent].