Signs Robert Swinhoe’s certificate [for the Royal Society] with pleasure.
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Signs Robert Swinhoe’s certificate [for the Royal Society] with pleasure.
Comments on several points in Descent,
doubts facts about Monacanthus brushes
and the two Cyprinidae males attending the female when spawning.
Thanks for recent edition of CD’s Journal of researches.
Has been appointed to a Keepership at British Museum.
Sends a list of queries for AG.
Asks whether AG can supply specimens for illustrations [for Descent]. Hopes Mr Ford will do the drawings.
Sends some questions on secondary sexual differences of fishes [missing], which he hopes AG will look over.
Invites AG to come to Down.
Encloses queries on sexual differences and nest-building habits of fish.
Encloses a testimonial for AG [in support of his application for a promotion at British Museum].
Does he agree with Carl Gegenbaur’s paper on the limbs of fish [Jenaische Z. Naturwiss. 5 (1870): 397–447]?
Asks what caused G. R. Gray’s sudden death.