A bibliographical query arising in translation of Descent. Two misprints noted.
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A bibliographical query arising in translation of Descent. Two misprints noted.
The pages [of Descent] CD wishes to correct are not yet printed.
JVC’s work on the translation has been interrupted by illness.
Sends CD a list of misprints in vol. 1 of Descent.
On ratios of the sexes in insects, and other facts relating to sexual selection.
Sends corrections for Descent.
Publisher would like to produce a translation of Expression. JVC offers to translate it.
Sends passage from Albertus Magnus on colour of horses.
Offers explanation of white colour of sea-birds.
Schweizerbart is now reprinting Descent, nearly all the first 3000 copies having been sold;
new editions of Origin
and of Variation are also planned.
Possibility of a new German translation of Journal of researches.
News of progress of German editions of Origin
and Descent.
Asks CD for references on chabius – a Chilean hybrid of goat and sheep.
Horns of castrated merino rams remain almost undeveloped.