Asks whether mane in male of Macacus silenus protects it from bites or is merely ornamental.
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Asks whether mane in male of Macacus silenus protects it from bites or is merely ornamental.
Sends photo of four Fuegians, including Jemmy Button’s son.
Reports incident of two wild stallions on the Falklands acting together in an attempt to take a troop of mares from an introduced English horse [see Descent 2: 241].
Rejoices over news of Variation sales.
Pall Mall Gazette review [7 (1868): 555, 636, 652] is undoubtedly by G. H. Lewes [see 5951].
Dinner at Lyells’.
Dean Stanley favours a monument to Faraday in Westminster Abbey.
Perceval Wright is back from Seychelles and reports on plants he collected.
JEG and Nathusius on pigs.
Reference to JEG’s paper on African and Indian cats [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1867): 258–77, 874–6].