Orders journal volume [Mémoires présentées par divers savans à l’Académie des Sciences 4] from librarian.
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Orders journal volume [Mémoires présentées par divers savans à l’Académie des Sciences 4] from librarian.
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Quotes passage from letter from Asa Gray dealing with views of Francis Bowen on heredity and Agassiz "(foolish man)" on heredity and languages.
Sent CL the Calcutta Review [with Edward Blyth’s review of Origin, 35 (1860): 64–88].
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Variations in nature arise from unknown causes, accidentally or spontaneously, and are preserved by natural selection if beneficial.
Asks for a rabbit specimen;
inquires about a hybrid hare–rabbit.
Promises to send copy of Origin [3d ed.].
Is pleased that PLS has "become ""heretical"" on species".
Asks about distribution of Gallus and about description of Gallus temminckii, G. R. Gray.
Thanks correspondent for book on old bones.
CD never dreamed primroses did not abound with DO; apologises for trouble and sends flowers.
Will repay DO for cost of Cypripedium and for the Dionaea, if any can be got.
Discusses progress of CL’s work [on Antiquity of man (1863)].
CD had not thought of subsidence in connection with "roads" of Glen Roy.
Discusses habits of ants.
Asks about species of Opetiorhynchus.
Has received the shipment of skeletons of fowls. Asks TCE species name of Gungla cock. Mentions other specimens.
CD is unable to locate his specimens of two Falkland Island birds [Opetiorhynchus].
Discusses results of his examination of fowls’ skeletons. Wants to quote TCE on variation in skeletons of allied species. Asks about skulls of birds with topknots.
Asks TCE to confirm some general statements on resemblances in skeletons of birds of same genus.
Thanks President and Council of Ethnological Society for his election.
Suggests procedures for breeding experiments with hollyhocks. Recommends C. F. v. Gärtner [Bastarderzeugung (1849)]. [See also 3151]
Discusses feral rabbits of Porto Santo. Arranges for care of rabbits while the Darwins visit Torquay.
Thanks BSM for orchid specimens. Discusses various species of Orchis and Ophrys.