Repeats request for information on colours of plumage of poultry breeds and asks for WBT’s facts on proportions of sexes.

Inquires about colour and development of plumage of poultry breeds. Is endeavouring to trace sexual differences throughout the animal kingdom.

Wants information on plumage of chickens

and table of sex ratios in greyhounds.

Numerical proportion of males to females in greyhound puppies.

Thanks for greyhound table; interested in transmission of colour in greyhounds and relationship to sex.

Forwards a basket of eggs of pile game fowl.

Thanks for procuring eggs.

CD’s health has necessitated his leaving home.

Sends C. M. Browne’s notes on transmission of colour in greyhounds [see Variation, 2d ed., 2: 40]

and a letter from Major Holland.

WBT to visit America.

Further queries on poultry plumage.

WBT’s visit to America.

Inquires about the differences in plumage between chicks and adults of certain poultry breeds. Is anxious to know whether the chick’s plumage closely approaches the adult’s in those breeds in which the sexes resemble each other in plumage.

He will send carrier to the Field office to collect pigeons.

Chickens have arrived safely.