Invites CD to dine and meet Alphonse de Candolle.
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Invites CD to dine and meet Alphonse de Candolle.
Tameness of whales and porpoises.
Testimonial in behalf of JEG’s application for the position of keeper of the zoological department of the British Museum from which John George Children was about to resign.
Thanks for skins and skeletons.
Has been arranging sponges [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1867): 495–558].
Discussion of the pig in light of CD’s Variation.
Work of Hermann von Nathusius [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].
Would like a look at Nathusius.
Edward Blyth’s inability to recognise cats’ skulls.
JEG and Nathusius on pigs.
Reference to JEG’s paper on African and Indian cats [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1867): 258–77, 874–6].
Slashing article on Variation in Athenæum.
Discussion of relationships of various pigs.
Thanks for Nathusius [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].
CD will call on JEG to hear his views on specific differences of pigs.
Does not know who has "cut me up so severely" in the Athenæum but suspects "your great man in the Museum" [Richard Owen].
JEG’s paper on pigs is being printed [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1868): 17–49].
Colouring in horses.
Canine teeth in males are always larger than in females and certainly so in Cervulus moschus.
Thanks JEG for answering questions so fully and clearly, especially as he is troubled with his eyes.
Requests that Charles Lyell be permitted to borrow the coral reef specimens he presented to the British Museum.
Sexual differences in sloths. J. G. Wagler article on sloths [Isis 24 (1831): 604–12].
Corrects error in his letter [7652] about date of Wagler article in Isis. Wagler said it was females that had the yellow dorsal spot.
Sexual differences in coloration in Lemur macaco.
Thanks for information on colour differences in sexes of Lemur.
Is glad JEG has made out what the guemul is ["On the Guémul", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 10 (1872): 445–6; 11 (1873): 214–20, 308–10].