Oliver overlooked CD’s request about rutaceous flowers. Of precisely which points about the ovules does CD want illustrations?
Horned rams of Guinea sheep.
CD’s queries about expression are too difficult for him to answer.
Visiting arrangements.
Reports what he must pay for university courses. Forgets what CD wants to know about vermiform appendage.
Discusses CD’s health and James Paget’s "verdict".
Sends information from a Kent sheep-breeder.
"I enclose a note from Lord Fitzwilliam about his horse with zebra-marks. The case seems as striking as I believed."
Has seen J. J. Sylvester again.
Has written to Moscow about translations of Origin. Wishes to translate additions to the fifth English edition and print them as a supplement.
Pleased by CD’s high opinion of Alexander Kovalevsky.
A list of investments presumably belonging to CD.
Describes the novelties found on his recent expedition to South America sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution.
Wants to dedicate to CD book [The Andes and the Amazon (1870)] which is modelled on Journal of researches.
Receiving notes on inbreeding from T. T. Wright, who has long experience with the subject.
Reports six-toed pup.
Planning to visit Gibraltar and Morocco. Is there anything he can do for CD?
Writing to friends on CD’s behalf about deer: T. T. Wright, Archibald McNeill.
Gives details of some crossing experiments with Eschscholzia.
Describes the grass Streptochaeta, which FM believes to be a primitive grass.
Relates some observations on maize that are well explained by Pangenesis.
Praises Variation and Pangenesis.
Reports observations on parrots and cockatoos.
In Gibraltar he will make notes on merino lambs and Drosophyllum as CD requests.
Criticisms of and suggestions for CD’s draft MS on Nägeli [for Origin, 5th ed.].
Forwards A. McNeill’s letter on deer horns. McNeill wrote portion on deerhounds in William Scrope’s book [The art of deer-stalking (1838)].
Red tape leaves no time for botany.
New ministry laudably attempting economies.
