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LR undertakes translation of Orchids [1870]. Awaits CD’s new footnotes and intends to look at every flower CD mentions.
The cirripede material mentioned in CD’s letter of 10 Feb has not arrived. [Asks CD to inquire of Williams and Norgate, who forwarded it.]
His observations of the chickens hatched from eggs of an isolated pair of pure-bred black-boned fowl. Nine were black-boned, two were like ordinary fowl.
Quotes a Mr Holdsworth on unusual expressions of Singhalese and Tamils in pointing and beckoning.
Has given a lecture series on Darwinism which was attended by 200–500 students.
Would like to compile a list of CD’s works.
Will look for sex ratio statistics.
Will weigh pups.
Deerhound breeding;
wolves.
Mentions his publication [Die Bildungsgesetze der Vogeleier (1869)].
Comments on importance of heredity for evolution.
Proportion of sexes in pigeons, pigs, and pheasants.
Sexual preferences of females.
Comments on Fritz Müller’s book [Facts and arguments for Darwin].
Responds to CD’s corrections of his work [Malay Archipelago].
Plumage of birds of paradise.
No summary available.
Sends two of his publications ["Bericht über die wissenschaftlichen Fortschritte der Thierzucht", Jahrb. Landwirtsch. (1869) and "Die Aufgaben der landwirtschaftlicher Biotechnik", Landwirtsch. Wochenbl. (1869)].
Comments on their differences regarding evolution. Acknowledges that CD alone has produced an evolutionary theory that is scientific and all-embracing. Appreciates grandeur of CD’s work.
Sends CD a paper ["Ant-agency in plant structure", published in Spruce Notes of a botanist on the Amazon and Andes, ed. A. R. Wallace (1908)] on plant structures he believes are the work of insects; asks him to forward it to the Linnean Society [read 15 Apr 1869].
Writes of his support for the Origin, before which he had been much concerned by the delimitation of so-called species.
Describes the work he is writing, Cosmology (Ramsay 1870).
Regrets Frank [Darwin] did not pass the Trinity scholarship examination, but he hears Frank did well on the viva voce part.
Pleased CD is willing to help the University’s Museum of Zoology; he encloses the printed appeal.
Insectivorous plants; Drosophyllum lusitanicum.
Descriptions of the local sheep.
Describes the floral structure and fertilisation of some melastomes;
discusses the direct agency of insects in modifying the structure of flowers.
Will attempt to provide CD with the information requested as soon as he can.
Gives references to some recent papers and articles which might interest CD.
Is currently reviewing Wallace’s new book [Malay Archipelago].
Numerical proportion of males to females in greyhound puppies.
He has found abundant Drosophyllum in Andalusia.
Expands upon their differences in regard to man and the question of the existence of forces not yet recognised by science.
