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Has sent the figures accompanying his second communication to the lithographers. Thinks his letter of 22 Dec. intelligible without them. Will send the proofs of the paper.
Planning to visit Gibraltar and Morocco. Is there anything he can do for CD?
Apologises for having kept JC’s book so long; would like to keep it about ten days more.
Writing to friends on CD’s behalf about deer: T. T. Wright, Archibald McNeill.
Requests sending of a copy of recent R.S.L. Proceedings to JH's son in India.
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Gives details of some crossing experiments with Eschscholzia.
Describes the grass Streptochaeta, which FM believes to be a primitive grass.
Relates some observations on maize that are well explained by Pangenesis.
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Praises Variation and Pangenesis.
Reports observations on parrots and cockatoos.
Asks JH to confirm that JH appointed Charles Sterry as HF's assistant assayer on 25 Apr. 1851 after Henry Bingley declined position. Original letter of appointment is lost, and HF is accused of falsifying records.
Sends MS of 13 pages in answer to Nägeli, for new edition of Origin [5th ed., p. 151].
Thanks GM for offer of observations. Would be interested to know when the horns of merino rams first appear,
and has long wished for living specimens of Drosophyllum.
Has received GA's paper on spectral lines and is amazed that it is possible to see a spectrum in the light from faint nebulae.
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Information about the distribution of papers.
Oliver overlooked CD’s request about rutaceous flowers. Of precisely which points about the ovules does CD want illustrations?
In Gibraltar he will make notes on merino lambs and Drosophyllum as CD requests.
Was going to write in French, but switched languages. Honored by AQ's insertion of JH's review of AQ's Physique sociale as introduction. Has been very ill and has no strength for attention to anything beyond bodily sufferings. Lists works received.
Forwards A. McNeill’s letter on deer horns. McNeill wrote portion on deerhounds in William Scrope’s book [The art of deer-stalking (1838)].