Work will prevent his visiting Down as he had planned.
Work will prevent his visiting Down as he had planned.
Wishes to insert R. B. Litchfield’s remarks [into Expression] but will not give them as his own.
Has found the skull of the horned cock.
With regard to CD’s suggestion about the possibility of producing a pigeon breed with differently coloured sexes, WBT reports the results of crossing blue and silver dragons; the silver offspring are almost always hens.
Would like the latest edition of the Origin.
Encloses notes on volume one [of Descent].
Encloses a photograph showing the bleaching effect of the sun’s rays on dun feathers in pigeons.
AG’s application for an appointment to Assistant Keeper at the British Museum.
Acknowledges election as Honorary Member of the New Zealand Institute [now Royal Society N. Z.].
More on Ayrton affair. Conduct of Gladstone and the Ministry despicable. They have owned him to be in right but will not raise a finger until exposure in Parliament is imminent.
Is sorry JDH cannot come to Down.
Hopes the House of Lords "pitch into the accursed fellow" [Ayrton].
Thanks for information on sexual colours in pigeons.
Will send latest edition of Origin.
Sends his article ["Review of Owen’s Cuvierian principle of palaeontology"].
Reports aggressive reactions of three kinds of porcupines to a snake, concluding that in the wild they would probably kill and eat it [see Expression, pp. 93–4]
WWR is beginning to appreciate CD’s warnings against his polemical writing.
Sends sketches of expressions in two dogs.
Reports and describes massive hailstones which fell in Petoraghur [Nepal].
Sends quotation from Thomas Moore’s Memoirs [ed. Lord John Russell, (1853–6)] about hereditary peculiarity in handwriting.
On colour-blindness in his family.
O. Salvin will not be applying for the same post as AG.
AM [wife of Jules Michelet] offers information on crosses in cats.
Sends duplicate of his previous letter [8189]; he addressed it simply to C. Darwin, England, and had no reply.
No summary available.
No summary available.
Comments on drawings of hostile dog and affectionate dog.
Sends small gift of money.