Asks for reference to EB’s article about tame deer on island in Aral Sea.
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Asks for reference to EB’s article about tame deer on island in Aral Sea.
Hildebrand’s paper on trimorphism in Oxalis ["Über den Trimorphismus in der Gattung Oxalis", Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1866): 352–74].
Problems of explaining brightly coloured, attractive seeds.
Haeckel has visited Down.
FM’s climbing plants paper is printed [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9].
WBT interested in ancestors of domestic guinea-fowl, ducks, and geese.
Egg colours in fowls.
A confounded cock ground the crimson seeds up so CD could not find them in its excrement. CD is puzzled by how seeds can be disseminated if merely ground up by birds. Perhaps like acorns from seeds accidentally dropped by birds?
A woodcock’s leg with dry clay clinging to it, from which CD has grown a microscopical rush.
Spencer would have been wonderful if he had trained himself to observe more.
On New Zealand flora and connection with Australia.
Difficulty of speculating about the amount of organic chemical change at different periods.
On the 'Great Phenomenon' of 13 and 14 Nov. [meteor shower]; JH appears to believe that there is an annular ring of very minute planets circling the sun.