Has examined feet of many partridges, but has not been able to obtain any quantity of mud from them.
Further answers on his seed lot.
Information about about Kattywar (Kathiawari) horses in India.
Further information about about Kattywar (Kathiawari) horses in India.
Busy with introductory essay to [The botany of the Antarctic voyage, pt III] Flora Tasmaniae [printed separately as On the flora of Australia (1859)].
Now explains greater abundance of European species in Tasmania than in Fuegia by CD’s "refrigeration" hypothesis.
Reports on difference between first and second plantings of beans.
Sends an account of different colours and shapes of seeds raised from ordinary seeds of scarlet runner. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 151.]
At work on the introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae.
Discusses the effects of climate and geography on "vegetable strife".
Refers to CD’s article "Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers" in Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 2: 19–25] and asks how forced beans flower in winter when no insect is on the wing.
Replies to CD’s question on whether beans in first or second year were planted near any other varieties.
K. E. von Baer’s view of the air bladder of fishes.
Would appreciate loan of CD’s chapter on transmigration across tropics, which may help with the difficulties of Australian distribution.
Still regards plant types as older than animal types.
The Cape of Good Hope and Australian temperate floras cannot be connected by the highlands of Abyssinia.
JDH cannot abide CD’s connection of wide-ranging species and "highness". Australian flora contradicts this in many ways.
Responds to CD’s queries about the thickness of various geological formations. [See Origin, p. 284.]
