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Two queries on teeth: 1. Is there evidence of inherited peculiarities in milk teeth?
2. Are male incisors longer than female?
Reports two observations on crossing in dogs: the preservation of both pure types in the offspring of a pointer and a setter, and the influence of a first mating with a mongrel on the progeny of a Barbary bitch and a subsequent Barbary male.
Jessie [Wedgwood] says driving in sun made one of her eyes water.
Wishes to know the correct name for the British Museum’s specimen of an Abyssinian wolf described by Wilhelm Rueppell, Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien [1835–40] .
Asks DO to identify a plant grown from earth adhering to the foot of a woodcock.
Suggests investments for CD;
discusses the opening of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury;
mentions Edward Lumb of Buenos Aires, with whom CD stayed in Argentina.
Thanks CD for his kindness and hopes one day to return it.
Finds more and more observations fall in with CD’s theory but still finds it difficult to account for the sudden leaps in the fossil record and to explain why some organisms first appear as such high forms.
Recommends a tutor for CD’s son.
Caroline says Jos [Wedgwood III] is "much pulled down".
Will be glad to see her on 4th.
Thinks Hensleigh is getting better, very slowly.