Thanks for CD’s testimonial.
Thanks for CD’s testimonial.
Is the horned toad of Oregon a batrachian or a lizard?
Hopes AG will be promoted in the British Museum.
Will FD try to persuade A. D. Bartlett to show a live snake to a porcupine and observe whether the porcupine rattles the quills on its tail? [See 8333.]
Thanks for information on sexual colours in pigeons.
Will send latest edition of Origin.
More on Ayrton affair. Conduct of Gladstone and the Ministry despicable. They have owned him to be in right but will not raise a finger until exposure in Parliament is imminent.
Acknowledges election as Honorary Member of the New Zealand Institute [now Royal Society N. Z.].
AG’s application for an appointment to Assistant Keeper at the British Museum.
Is sorry JDH cannot come to Down.
Hopes the House of Lords "pitch into the accursed fellow" [Ayrton].
Sends his article ["Review of Owen’s Cuvierian principle of palaeontology"].
Reports aggressive reactions of three kinds of porcupines to a snake, concluding that in the wild they would probably kill and eat it [see Expression, pp. 93–4]
Sends sketches of expressions in two dogs.
Reports and describes massive hailstones which fell in Petoraghur [Nepal].
WWR is beginning to appreciate CD’s warnings against his polemical writing.
Sends quotation from Thomas Moore’s Memoirs [ed. Lord John Russell, (1853–6)] about hereditary peculiarity in handwriting.
On colour-blindness in his family.
O. Salvin will not be applying for the same post as AG.
Sends duplicate of his previous letter [8189]; he addressed it simply to C. Darwin, England, and had no reply.
Comments on drawings of hostile dog and affectionate dog.
Sends small gift of money.
Will himself correct the details on the woodblock CD finds acceptable. The second one followed CD’s instructions, contrary to his own experience.
His book has received bad reviews; therefore CD’s letter cheers him up.
Sends £35 as his subscription towards the building of a vicarage.