Discusses books returned
and invites him to Down for a few days.
Discusses books returned
and invites him to Down for a few days.
Invites GRW and his family to visit.
Family financial matters.
Returns notes on mule yaks [see Natural selection, p. 438]
and sends queries on silkworms.
A bed is ready any time HF will come.
Regularly attends Owen’s lectures. Owen at pains to show groups are not linked. Thus makes Lepidosiren appear fish-like.
GRW thinks embryology will become chief guide to insect classification. But contradictions between classification based on embryological and adult characters do occur.
Thanks for procuring cuttings of weeping yew.
Writes about canal shares EAD holds as trustee.
Arrangements for Emma’s return to Down.
CD has been "wonderfully strong".
Sends calculations of angles of elevation [of sea-bottom, for South America?].
Swale has sent Lady Willoughby’s diary, which EAD will forward to CD.
Asks that A. d’Orbigny’s geological map of S. America be sent to him with a card of the Society’s evening meetings.
Queries on ratios of species to genera on southern islands. CD’s observations on distribution of Galapagos organisms, and on S. American fossils, and facts he has gathered since, lead him to conclusion that species are not immutable; "it is like confessing a murder".
Discusses sending HD lice specimens. Asks him to check with G. R. Waterhouse.
Delighted to be able to contribute Infusoria to ED’s "great countryman Ehrenberg". Includes a list of eight substances from his collection described in detail, which Ehrenberg might find useful in his researches.
C. G. Ehrenberg would like some earth from Galapagos, Tierra del Fuego, and the Falklands; wishes to hunt for Infusoria.
Remarks on geographical divisions of the flora of the Southern Hemisphere.
JDH beginning Galapagos plants. Value of studying insular floras with respect to inquiries about adaptation of species.
Dicussion of some specimens from the Beagle voyage.
Thanks for information for Ehrenberg.
Inquires about the habits of a litter of foxhounds whose sire was particularly good at recovering the scent in paths or roads.
Has just completed Volcanic islands.
Sends queries on Galapagos flora in particular and island floras in general; also on relationship of wide-ranging species to wide-ranging genera.
Regrets the delay in sending copies of his paper.