Sends WED £200.
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Sends WED £200.
Has read CD’s queries in the Field regarding the markings of dun-coloured horses. JS has for some years been working on and observing the occurrence of ass-like striped markings in horses and wonders whether CD received any response to his queries.
Sends references to books by Charles Lebrun.
Sends cheque for Down charities.
Has adopted CD’s plan of giving every author’s name in index [of Variation], but it causes delay.
Extract from a sermon.
Sends copy of book containing measurements taken of individuals of different races during voyage of Novara [Karl Heinrich von Scherzer, ed., Reise der Fregatte "Novara", Anthropologischer Theil (1867)].
Asks for scientific advice concerning newly planned expedition.
Says Carl Vogt plans to use data from book in lectures.
Thanks for skins and skeletons.
Has been arranging sponges [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1867): 495–558].
Thanks CD for £200 and discusses meeting in London at the beginning of December.
Will volumes [of Variation] be published separately? What is name and address of publisher in Paris?
Encloses list of people to whom he would like presentation copies of the German edition of Variation sent.
Woolner’s bust.
Smith’s health.
St Helena Umbelliferae.
Brambles.
First volume of Variation has been translated. He does not support CD’s suggestion that the two volumes might be published separately.
Thanks AD for his paper on "Morphology of the Arthropoda" [Rep. BAAS 37 (1867) pt 2: 82], a deeply interesting subject.
Suggests he examine specimens of Scalpellum.
Fritz Müller thinks CD is mistaken, but CD cannot persuade himself he was wrong in his observations on Balanidae [Living Cirripedia 2: 105].
Glad that Reinwald does not intend separate publication of [Variation] volumes. Book had large sale at [Murray’s] auction.
Writes, as editor of the Intellectual Observer, saying how much he would like to be able to publish papers by CD.
Pleased by CD’s letter; his object was to apply CD’s principles to the reform of zoology. When this is done, it is wonderful to see how improved one’s understanding of the Crustacea (Arthropoda) becomes. Cites examples.
Will send proto-Lamarckian pamphlet [1799] by Charles White, if CD wishes. It has a graduated scale of types from snipe to man.
Writing article on Chillingham Park and its wild cattle; requests information on CD’s observations on their character and original breed. Was referred to CD by Lord and Lady Tankerville.