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Thanks GA for a letter of introduction to friends in Rome [used by JH's daughter Margaret Louisa and her new husband, Reginald Dyke Marshall]; JH is willing to serve on a committee with GA and others if he does not have to go to London for meetings.
Receipt of mail from home including letters from Bates and Darwin; cleaning and packing of collections from Aru; detailed account of numbers, types and locations of insects collected, including first serious collection of very small beetle species (Staphylinidae etc) at Macassar; comparison of data sent by Bates with his own; reaction to ARW's paper "On the succession of species", approving letter from Darwin; benefit of Darwin's proposed publication on species and varieties; boundary between two distinct faunas in Malay Archipelago; proposed expeditions to Gilolo island [Halmahera] and New Guinea; advantages of Amboyna as a base; battles of Balaclava and Inkerman; Britain - India meeting [British rule in India]; insects in the Andes.
Asks WBC to plant some kidney beans [on Holy Island near Arran] and to see whether they are ever visited by bees. If no bees visit the island, it would be "curious" to observe what plants grow there.
Has been thinking over the names of solicitors and believes he can recommend Messrs. Lewin of Southampton St. The senior partner is a brother of JM and JH should keep his papers when he concludes his business with his present solicitors.
Thanks for the gift of a book of verse.
Asks GB to vote for "a distant connexion of mine" at Athenaeum, and to mention this to Hooker.
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Wants someone else to take responsibility for committee on magnetic observations [see JH's 1858-1-25]; GA proposes Edward Sabine.
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Has been appointed, with William Whewell, to committee to help ensure continuance of observations on terrestrial magnetism. Needs names of those on B.A.A.S. committee with whom they will work.
Discusses B.A.A.S. business and asks for WW's views on some magnetic observations.
Thanks WDF for information on blackbirds’ nests [see Natural selection, p. 505].
Problem of choosing from among the load of curious facts for chapter on "Instinct" [Natural selection, ch. 10; Origin, ch. 7] perplexes him.
Asks about behaviour of chicks in danger and whether crossed animals are wilder than either parent.
Sends a copy of [John?] Dalton's letter for which he is obliged. Expresses appreciation of his recent visit to Kent and Sussex.
Send names of members of B.A.A.S. committee appointed to cooperate with R.S.L. committee for purpose of procuring continuance of observations of terrestrial magnetism.