In answer to CD’s queries, relates further details about feral sheep: they are sterile when wild, but can become tame again.
In answer to CD’s queries, relates further details about feral sheep: they are sterile when wild, but can become tame again.
Role of humming-birds in plant fertilisation.
Alexander Agassiz has visited Down.
Sales of Facts and arguments for Darwin.
Encloses copy of T. H. Farrer letter [7015] and observations on the self-sterility of Eschscholzia.
Discusses some calculations which he is doing for CD on the ratios of red and brown colouring in some animals.
[Summary in JH's hand:] Enquiry about Henry John Hollier's request for advance on mortgage. Enclosed form to be signed by JH [as co-trustee] or chief accountant of Bank of England. [JH note: signed form and returned it to Anderson and Shonbridge. Forwarded letter to Few & Co.]
Sending JH a set of stereograms of prisms.
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Proposes to include a paper on the Hymenoptera of the Eastern Archipelago at a meeting of the Linnean Society. Will ARW read his own paper on the subject that evening.
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Inquires about arrangements for the German translation and publication of their original Linnean Society papers [Collected papers 2: 3–19].
ARW thinks he has hit upon a solution to problem of geological time.
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Further comments on arrangements for German translation of their joint paper.
Encloses a letter to which he had replied and saw no need for further attention.
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Is glad CD likes the new edition [of Prehistoric times].
Has been lecturing in Scotland.
Asks to change their appointment because of a prior engagement.
Grateful for JH's interest in survey of Sinai Peninsula and loan of JH's theodolite. [H. S.] Palmer will visit JH and receive instruction in its use. Asks to name JH as co-trustee of survey with Henry James.
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