Thanks WBT for his help with poultry
and informs him about his forthcoming work [Origin].
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Thanks WBT for his help with poultry
and informs him about his forthcoming work [Origin].
Has FS observed the slaves of Formica sanguinea foraging outside the nest.
Sends source of description of swimming bear catching insects [Samuel Hearne, A journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort in Hudson’s Bay to the northern ocean … (1795); see Origin, p. 184].
Responds to Owen’s remarks that his book [Origin] is not likely to be true because it attempts to explain so much. CD describes how, for fear this might be so, he resolved to give up the work if he could not convince two or three competent judges. He is sensitive because of unjust things said by a distinguished friend [A. Sedgwick]. Value of his views now depends on men eminent in science.