Asks GB to vote for "a distant connexion of mine" at Athenaeum, and to mention this to Hooker.
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Asks GB to vote for "a distant connexion of mine" at Athenaeum, and to mention this to Hooker.
Asks WBC to plant some kidney beans [on Holy Island near Arran] and to see whether they are ever visited by bees. If no bees visit the island, it would be "curious" to observe what plants grow there.
On papilionaceous flowers and CD’s theory that there are no eternal hermaphrodites. Connects this theory to absence of small-flowered legumes in New Zealand and the absence of small bees as pollinators.
Went to the show and saw EWVH’s birds.
Thinks he will give up his pigeons at the end of the summer.
Asks to borrow W. C. Hewitson’s book [British oology, 2 vols. (1831–44)].
CD is searching for reliable information on slight variations in the degree of perfection of nests of the same species of birds.
CD has never doubted probability of Bering Strait land connection.
Family illness.
Has received Burmese fowls’ skins from Walter Elliot.
Mrs Henslow’s death stirs reminiscences of happier days.
Thanks WDF for information on blackbirds’ nests [see Natural selection, p. 505].
Problem of choosing from among the load of curious facts for chapter on "Instinct" [Natural selection, ch. 10; Origin, ch. 7] perplexes him.
Asks about behaviour of chicks in danger and whether crossed animals are wilder than either parent.