Sends a list of mammalian remains found in the Buenos Aires district and purchased by the British Museum.
Sends a list of mammalian remains found in the Buenos Aires district and purchased by the British Museum.
Invites GRW to a dinner party with other scientists.
Wishes to propose John Lubbock as a member of the Entomological Society.
Asks for B. H. Hodgson’s pamphlet on sheep ["Tame sheep and goats", J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 16 (1847): 1003–26]. Asks for odd numbers of GRW’s work [A natural history of the Mammalia (1846–8)]. Regrets that this work has stopped.
Knows no one in Buenos Aires. Suggests sites in South America where Auguste Bravard can find fossils.
Ray Society has delayed distribution [of Living Cirripedia (1851)].
Thanks GRW for his sympathy on his ill health. Feels better lately.
Sends thanks to G. P. Deshayes for his advice.
Asks what "original work" GRW has begun so his name will become better known.
Sends fossil cirripedes for the museum’s collection.
Sends list of aberrant forms of Curculionidae.
Discusses in detail the artificiality of Carl Johan Schönherr’s classification. Sound generalisations about geographical distribution depend on sound classifications. Warns against putting too much faith in current catalogues.
Gives instances of sexual differences in the number of tarsi within species of Coleoptera and also variation in the number of tarsi between related species.
A page of [unspecified] text is missing from a parcel of material received from GRW.
CD "hopes and expects to live to see Carboniferous, & perhaps even Silurian, mammifers!"
Has several questions to ask whenever they meet.
Comparison of skulls of Ichthyosaurus and Cetacea.
Asks GRW if there is any easy systematic work on Lepidoptera for his sons. Considers making out the names from descriptions fine practice for the intellect; mere collecting is idle work.
Has found no reference to construction of bees’ cells in works referred to by CD. Describes cell of Osmia atricapilla. Hive-bees’ cell was described at Entomological Society.
Bees’ cells. Observations on Osmia atricapilla.
GRW’s observations of and ideas on bees’ and wasps’ cells.
Bees’ cells; GRW thinks hexagonal shape is accidental. Encloses notes on cells of Icaria.
Bees’ cells; is the hexagonal shape deliberate or merely the result of lateral pressure on cylinders?
It is not true that all the fossil cave bears are of the same species.
Has no drone cells in collection of honeycombs. Discusses construction of cells by bees and ability of bees to judge distances in constructing comb.
Returns a letter from a Mr Walsh – "a clear-headed man on my side". What he says about sea trout in lochs would make a good case for CD if borne out by professional ichthyologists.
Wishes to know the correct name for the British Museum’s specimen of an Abyssinian wolf described by Wilhelm Rueppell, Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien [1835–40] .