CD requests accurate information on the extent to which the different varieties of fruit-trees produce seedlings like their parents. Do some varieties of pears and apples tend to produce truer offspring than other varieties?
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CD requests accurate information on the extent to which the different varieties of fruit-trees produce seedlings like their parents. Do some varieties of pears and apples tend to produce truer offspring than other varieties?
Requests skins of domestic breeds or races of poultry, pigeons, rabbits, cats, and dogs from any unfrequented region. [Attached is a list of people to whom CD has written for pigeon and poultry skins.]
Discusses distribution of shells.
"Dr Gully did me much good." Hopes WHB profited by water cure.
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Pleased to hear that JH's daughter is to be her successor. Thinks the Queen is right though AM's letters will not turn out to be so pro-slavery as given out to be. [Postscript gives reasons for her resignation.]
Regrets to hear that JH has been ill. Gives the title of her book and the reasons for her views on slavery.
Has JH received the second or third of AS's Cambridge Paleozoic? Asks about William Whewell's pamphlets regarding the University. Describes trip to Scotland.
Is sending his speculations on the attraction of mountains.
Thanking him for his recommendation of BA's son for service at the Stationery Office.
Concerning exchange of some papers on meteorology.
Part I of Howard's Barometrographia will be ready on Thursday. Is pleased to hear his health has improved. A new edition of JH's Prelim. Discourse would be welcome.
On AD's note on Richard Sheepshanks's writing on the standard yard.
JH's handwriting is improving, which shows he is on the mend. Does not propose to show the failure of the scale. Quotes an error in his Latin.
Submitting a vote for JH's comment. Quotes various points of Latin grammar.
On proper and bad Latin.
Is glad to hear his health is improving. Has heard that JH is holding a large reception for all his descendents. Is progressing well with the book [on Francis Baily]. Sends a puzzle in spherical trigonometry.
Expresses thanks and praise for HB's Analytical View of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia [London, 1855].
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