Recommends he read passages on bees by C. T. E. von Siebold [in On the true parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1857)].
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Recommends he read passages on bees by C. T. E. von Siebold [in On the true parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1857)].
Much concerned by death of JBI’s mother.
Henrietta’s illness.
CD’s resort to [E. W. Lane’s] water-cure.
Other family news.
Etty [Henrietta Darwin] much improved.
Reference to his "hobby of striped asses".
Sceptical of JBI’s "curious stories" on spirit-tapping: "believe nothing one hears & only half of what one sees".
Going to sea-side for Etty’s health.
Asks JBI further questions about a striped donkey he had reported to CD.
Etty has had a relapse. "What the end will be, we know not."
News of Etty’s health and of neighbours.
Pleased that JBI likes Origin.
CD never expected to convert people in less than 20 years, though now convinced he is "in the main right". Bishop of Oxford’s review made "splendid fun" of him.
A bee’s sting always remains behind.
Delighted to have Quiz [Johnny Innes’ dog].
Arrangements for receiving Quiz.
Arrangements for sending Quiz.
Quiz has been sent off to Down.
JBI will leave for Scotland on Monday.
Quiz arrived safely.
CD’s three sons are in bed with bad colds.
Reports on a bird, offspring of a male mule between a canary and greenfinch, and a hen canary.
Family news.
Has heard of mules of canary and other finches breeding occasionally, but it is rare, and there is hardly one authenticated case of two such mules breeding together.
Sixteen of the household at Down are sick with influenza.
Quiz has had to be killed because he became vicious.
Horace Darwin strangely ill.
JBI asks Stephens to ask CD to send particulars of Tegetmeier’s beehives.
About Quiz and [Horace Darwin’s] health.
Asks whether CD has tried W. B. Tegetmeier’s beehives.
News of family and friends.
Saw a white rabbit with black-tipped ears on a moor where only brown ones commonly and black ones occasionally dwell.
Family and local news.