Will look for botanical specimens CD requested.
Tells of a kestrel with a broken leg which apparently was forced to change its diet to worms and snails because of the injury.
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Will look for botanical specimens CD requested.
Tells of a kestrel with a broken leg which apparently was forced to change its diet to worms and snails because of the injury.
On his father’s crossing experiments with cacti, in which hybrids were found quite fertile.
On his breeding of guinea-pigs.
Sends Miss E. Watts’s message about crested fowls and Brahmas.
Offers CD a live Proteus anguinus from Adelsberg cave. In his hands it will have a fair chance of developing into "some type of Columbidae (say a pouter or tumbler)".
The Origin is universally praised in Italy and Germany, even by those who disagree with it.
Notes observations on the spread of bees in New Zealand and their importance as pollinators of clover and other introduced plants.
Describes her compassion for all his sufferings and writes of her wish that his gratitude could be offered to heaven as well as to herself. To her, the only relief is to try to believe that suffering and illness are from God’s hand "to help us to exalt our minds & to look forward with hope to a future state".