He forwarded CD’s queries on the insane to James Crichton-Browne who has now answered.
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He forwarded CD’s queries on the insane to James Crichton-Browne who has now answered.
Migratory male nightingales and blackcaps arrive before females [see Descent 1: 259].
Discusses chaffinch "Peggers".
Disagrees with CD’s opinion that canary mules are fertile.
Display of colour of greenfinches in courtship.
Reports what he must pay for university courses. Forgets what CD wants to know about vermiform appendage.
South Down sheep: variability in colouring and patterning of lambs compared with constancy of adult coat.
Sends CD some notes [missing] on the mode of fertilisation of winter-flowering plants, and outlines his conclusions regarding the different types of winter-flowerers and the means by which they are fertilised.
Justifies his use of term "degraded" by comparing contrivances for cross-fertilisation in different species of Viola.
Recalls Cuvier’s reaction to Principles of geology.
Comments on Wallace’s article in the Quarterly Review [see 6684].
Not opposed to ARW’s idea that Supreme Will might direct variation.
Quotes passage in letter from ARW arguing for causes other than selection in determining human abilities.
Discusses excavation of lakes by glaciers.
J. P. Lesley does not believe ice-sheets involved in eroding Appalachians.
Females have no preference for particular males in deer and elk. Observations on sexual behaviour and characteristics of elk, deer, bison, and other animals.
Asks whether in Slavonic races the hair of the beard and head are different colours.
H. M. S. Nassau, surveying Magellan Straits, has found fossils at Gallegos River. They have been sent to THH by R. O. Cunningham [naturalist of H. M. S. Nassau]. Skull of entirely new ungulate mammal.
Daisies.
A tame rabbit with a litter of 18.
The Linnean Society Council wants CD to review two papers, with reference to their value for publication.
Thanks CD for lesson that it is wrong to call any plant which lives and thrives "degraded".
French translation of Orchids will be published by Reinwald. Asks for CD’s new footnotes to be sent.
Development of the horns of local sheep.
Results of breeding tailless pointers: of six puppies, three had stumps like parents.
Observations on Drosophyllum.
Will have Fritz Müller’s letter ["On the modification of the stamens in a species of Begonia", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 11 (1871): 472–4] read at next Linnean Society meeting [read 3 June 1869].
Has given the seeds to Daniel Oliver.
Notes sex ratios in Lepidoptera he is breeding.
Comments on paper by JJW ["On insects and insectivorous birds", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1869): 21–6]. JJW’s verification of A. R. Wallace’s suggestion regarding inheritance is quite a discovery.
Sends his MS "The real presence" [on transubstantiation] for CD’s comments.
He is managing to salvage a few Andalusian Drosophyllum plants from the voyage and will send some to CD.