Reports two observations on crossing in dogs: the preservation of both pure types in the offspring of a pointer and a setter, and the influence of a first mating with a mongrel on the progeny of a Barbary bitch and a subsequent Barbary male.
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Reports two observations on crossing in dogs: the preservation of both pure types in the offspring of a pointer and a setter, and the influence of a first mating with a mongrel on the progeny of a Barbary bitch and a subsequent Barbary male.
Cannot find his Chalk or Gault formation Pollicipes. Inquires how CD sent these back.
Thanks him for Balanus specimens. Comments on his findings. A large Acasta in the wet state would be valuable. Asks JSB to mention his work to J. T. Quekett at the College of Surgeons.
Thanks him for cirripede specimens.
Describes result of his dissection of one of JSB’s cirripede specimens, "now a hundred fold more instructive". Awaits fossils from Copenhagen Chalk for comparison with British specimens. Asks permission for J. de C. Sowerby to draw specimens.
Thanks JSB for specimens of fossil Balanidae.
Is sending JSB sponges.
He returns the Plumularia on which the beautiful Scalpellum ornatum was attached. [See 1229.]
Thanks JSB for cirripede specimens. Discusses publication [of Fossil Cirripedia].
Discusses his membership in Palaeontographical Society.
Thanks JSB for information regarding Sylvanus Hanley’s residence.
Sends stamps for specimen.
Requests permission to include foreign species in Fossil Cirrpedia (1851). Asks whether sponges arrived. Has not yet heard from Pearce about Pollicipes concinus.
Asks to re-examine specimen of Scalpellum. Discusses publication [of Fossil Cirripedia] by Palaeontographical Society.
G. B. Sowerby’s plates [for Living Cirripedia] are ready for the printer.
Requests receipt for payments to Society in 1858–9.
Discusses woodcut illustrations [for Fossil Cirripedia, vol. 1]. Wants species descriptions to be in both Latin and English.
Asks to borrow woodcut from Palaeontographical Society for use in Living Cirripedia, vol. 1.