Suggests Dawkins publish a paper on new facts on changes in the skeletal structure of animals kept but not bred in captivity.
Suggests Dawkins publish a paper on new facts on changes in the skeletal structure of animals kept but not bred in captivity.
Asks FD to check whether a Latin sentence is correct.
Thanks for the gift of his poem; it has afforded him great pleasure. Is starting on a tour of South Wales and the West Country.
The Berlin Academy has decided to publish Charles Rümker's observations, thus removing the problem from the hands of the B.A.A.S. [see JH's 1866-7-13].
JDH urges Asa Gray to publish his botanical writings as a collection, such a work would help JDH with the preparation of Rubiaceae for GENERA PLANTARUM. He complains that the profusion of botanical literature written in the Unites States of America is left to be catalogued, arranged & distilled by British botanists. JDH's mother [Lady Maria Hooker] is ill in Norwich. No news of [George] Bentham. [Daniel] Oliver has not returned from Skye. JDH has told Milligan to send Gray a set of his Tasmanian specimens.