Describes the novelties found on his recent expedition to South America sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution.
Wants to dedicate to CD book [The Andes and the Amazon (1870)] which is modelled on Journal of researches.
Describes the novelties found on his recent expedition to South America sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution.
Wants to dedicate to CD book [The Andes and the Amazon (1870)] which is modelled on Journal of researches.
Asks JVC to ascertain the age at which merino rams develop horns, and whether they grow faster or more slowly than in other breeds of sheep in which both sexes have horns.
Asks how JVC’s translation [of Variation] has sold.
No summary available.
No summary available.
Thanks SN for the trouble he has taken for him [on Lapland reindeer horns].
Is a listing of some of JH's papers in an attempt to clarify how many were distributed, and then JH indicates how many he will send to addressee.
Discusses the development of horns in reindeer and other deer.
No summary available.
No summary available.
Has sent the figures accompanying his second communication to the lithographers. Thinks his letter of 22 Dec. intelligible without them. Will send the proofs of the paper.
Planning to visit Gibraltar and Morocco. Is there anything he can do for CD?
Apologises for having kept JC’s book so long; would like to keep it about ten days more.
Writing to friends on CD’s behalf about deer: T. T. Wright, Archibald McNeill.
No summary available.
No summary available.
Requests sending of a copy of recent R.S.L. Proceedings to JH's son in India.
No summary available.
Gives details of some crossing experiments with Eschscholzia.
Describes the grass Streptochaeta, which FM believes to be a primitive grass.
Relates some observations on maize that are well explained by Pangenesis.
No summary available.
Praises Variation and Pangenesis.
Reports observations on parrots and cockatoos.