Thanks JEG for congratulations [on Copley Medal?].
Mentions JEG’s illness.
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Thanks JEG for congratulations [on Copley Medal?].
Mentions JEG’s illness.
Thanks for Nathusius [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].
CD will call on JEG to hear his views on specific differences of pigs.
Does not know who has "cut me up so severely" in the Athenæum but suspects "your great man in the Museum" [Richard Owen].
Thanks JEG for answering questions so fully and clearly, especially as he is troubled with his eyes.
The Japan pig, an unusual domestic species with no wild prototype.
Owen’s paper on the aye-aye [Rep. BAAS 32 (1862) pt 2: 114–16];
his attacks on CD and his theories.
Agrees with CD’s estimate of the man [unidentified]. Hopes CD will use his influence with Lubbock to try to prevent the Council’s placing him at the head of the Zoological Society.
Cites case of Owen’s getting compiler’s name removed from title of a British Museum catalogue.
Cites instance in which different varieties of same species of plant flourished side by side under same conditions.
Has received the larva of the batrachian. Outlines its affinities. Problems of batrachian systematics.
Invites CD to dine and meet Alphonse de Candolle.
Tameness of whales and porpoises.
Thanks for skins and skeletons.
Has been arranging sponges [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1867): 495–558].
Discussion of the pig in light of CD’s Variation.
Work of Hermann von Nathusius [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].
Would like a look at Nathusius.
Edward Blyth’s inability to recognise cats’ skulls.
JEG and Nathusius on pigs.
Reference to JEG’s paper on African and Indian cats [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1867): 258–77, 874–6].
Slashing article on Variation in Athenæum.
Discussion of relationships of various pigs.
JEG’s paper on pigs is being printed [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1868): 17–49].
Colouring in horses.
Canine teeth in males are always larger than in females and certainly so in Cervulus moschus.