Has seen lately a true ruminant with the two central metacarpals distinct. It was the foot of an Anoplotherium in a recent ruminant.
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Has seen lately a true ruminant with the two central metacarpals distinct. It was the foot of an Anoplotherium in a recent ruminant.
Returns notes on mule yaks [see Natural selection, p. 438]
and sends queries on silkworms.
A bed is ready any time HF will come.
Is grateful for his interest. Met the Trustees who promised to apply to the government for a grant of £1000 to assist his work.
Arranges a time for visiting HF.
Has written down what he gathered from HF on Tibetan dogs. Would welcome a few more details at any time, as he knows of nothing parallel to it.
The committee dealing with applying to the government for aid should meet soon, and so JH wants some questions answered from one of the authors of Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis.
As HF is likely to be immediately ordered back to India, he is in no position to prepare himself to appear before the government seeking funds to publish Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis. Encloses a brief statement to the above effect to be read to the B.A.A.S. committee.
Invites him to visit. JDH and one or two others coming.
Thinking about HF’s paper on Plagiaulax [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 13 (1857): 261–82]. Owen might answer that all Purbeck mammals are marsupials.
Can HF ask Col. E. Dickie [probably Col. Edward John Dickey] enclosed questions about Indian horses? [Questions relate to striped markings on the Kutch breed of horses.]
Cannot come to London until Tuesday. Arriving about 11: 15.
The antlers of 800 deer of the glacial period have been found in a cave. They show great variety of form, but gradation from one to the other can be traced when all are laid out. Suggests CD study changes that have taken place in the species since glacial period.
Has ordered the wicked book [Origin] CD has been so long a-hatching.
Has told Murray to send Origin to HF. "Lord, how savage you will be, if you read it, and how you will long to crucify me alive."
Suggests HF investigate hippopotamus tooth.
Has heard HF is very antagonistic to his views on species. Cannot believe a false theory would explain so many classes of facts.
Hyaena remains show how recently Sicily was joined to Africa.
Reports on the Oxford meeting of BAAS.
Eldest daughter [Henrietta] very ill.
CD enjoys Owen’s having had "a good setting down".
Offers CD a live Proteus anguinus from Adelsberg cave. In his hands it will have a fair chance of developing into "some type of Columbidae (say a pouter or tumbler)".
The Origin is universally praised in Italy and Germany, even by those who disagree with it.
Thanks HF for offer of valuable specimen, but CD has no aquarium. Suggests the Zoological Society would be the best place for it.
Will keep HF’s note among a very few precious letters.
Wanted to talk with CD about the astonishing new Pliocene fossil discoveries in North America reported by Leidy. One horse fossil’s dentition, if it could be believed, would be of great interest to CD’s views.
Will try to call tomorrow. What HF tells him about horses makes him eager to come.