Shot a sandpiper in Norway, the hind toe of which was clasped by a freshwater bivalve.
Sends replies to CD’s queries about sex ratios in humming-birds.
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Shot a sandpiper in Norway, the hind toe of which was clasped by a freshwater bivalve.
Sends replies to CD’s queries about sex ratios in humming-birds.
Preference of females for particular males certainly exists occasionally.
On the proportion of males to females in horses and in dogs.
Progress of CD’s order for certain books.
Resigns curacy of Down.
Plumage of canaries; changes in plumage with successive moults.
Suggests variation in seed-covering membranes as a cause of variation in plants.
Sends specimens of Coleoptera.
Quotes from W. F. Erichson [Naturgeschichte der Insecten Deutschlands 3: 927] on stridulating organs in Trox.
Describes work with pollinia of another Orchis species.
Horrified to find he has forgotten to announce birth of daughter.
Will answer CD’s queries when he returns home in a month.
F. Müller’s corrections warrant stating that the English translation has "additions and corrections by the author".
Is gratified to hear his index [to Variation] is considered a good one.
Ernst Haeckel’s book [Generelle Morphologie (1868)], though speculative, strikes him as "one of the most remarkable books of our time".
Writes about difficulties in which S. J. O. Horsman, curate at Down, has involved himself and others. Horsman has said he would resign. JBI offers to give up his interests in the living at Down.
Variation in recent leonine skeletons.
Miocene fauna of Europe.
Will get name of grass [see 6243] from Gen. William Munro.
Has heard from Charles Wheatstone that CD has Prussian Order of Merit. Rejoices because it is the only distinction worth a fig.
Went to Handel festival; heard Messiah.
Went to poor old N. B. Ward’s funeral.
Coloration of linnets.
Sexual behaviour of black hen bullfinch.
Further discussion of the difficulties with S. J. O’H. Horsman [curate at Down].
JL’s Royal Institution lectures.
The grass [see 6243] is Sporobolus elongatus, common in the tropics.
Visit to Oxford with X Club.
On his forthcoming address.
Thanks CD for article by G. H. Lewes ["Mr Darwin’s hypotheses, pt 1", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 3 (1868): 353–73]. Comments on article.
Describes hybridisation experiment carried out on rabbits and hares by Dr Conrad.
Encloses description of Monera
and a phylogenetic table of vertebrates.
Mentions work on Medusae.
The controversy over CD in Germany.
Has received copy of Variation.
Sends copy of his book [Die Spongien der Küste von Algier (1868)]. Comments on it.