What progress has been made with pigeon drawings for Variation?
Can WBT persuade Mr Zurhorst to repeat a pigeon experiment?
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What progress has been made with pigeon drawings for Variation?
Can WBT persuade Mr Zurhorst to repeat a pigeon experiment?
WBT’s fowls’ skulls are being engraved; will see pigeon illustration proofs when he can.
Comments on pigeon and poultry woodcuts.
Observations and queries on poultry.
Thanks WBT for help with woodcuts [for Variation].
Has returned WBT’s curious feathers.
Blocks for Variation are much improved. WBT deserves membership in Zoological Society.
Hopes to begin printing Variation at the beginning of next year.
Is tempted to cite Mr Zurhorst’s case.
Hopes to send pigeon and fowl MS [of Variation] to press in a fortnight.
Gives his opinion on the ancestry of domestic ducks, geese, and guinea-fowl.
Thanks for calling his attention to ancestry of guinea-fowl.
Thanks for the remittance.
Both WBT and Mr Zurhorst will repeat Zurhorst’s experiment to eliminate any chance of error.
Edward Blyth is writing on Indian cattle for the Field [27 (1866): 55–6, 77].
Discusses pigeon and poultry woodcuts [for Variation].
WBT’s poultry book is at last in the hands of a solvent publisher [The poultry book (1867)].
All the blocks [for Variation] are now engraved except the rock-dove.
Encloses feathers from a diseased hen which has assumed cock plumage.
Forwards proofs of the engravings for Variation.
Alterations to the woodcuts of poultry for Variation.
Has had the blocks cut as requested and forwards the proofs.
Encloses article on habits of jungle fowl.
The blocks [for Variation] have been forwarded to Murray.
WBT has been corresponding with Prof. Newton.
WBT interested in ancestors of domestic guinea-fowl, ducks, and geese.
Egg colours in fowls.
Thanks for information. Sclater was source of statement about Numida ptiloryncha [as origin of guinea-fowl] in The poultry book [pt 12 (Dec 1866): 288].