Sends a letter by Mr Teebay on variation in wild ducks.
Offers to lend Dr Cooper’s book on game fowls.
Is preparing a new edition [1873] of his Poultry book.
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Sends a letter by Mr Teebay on variation in wild ducks.
Offers to lend Dr Cooper’s book on game fowls.
Is preparing a new edition [1873] of his Poultry book.
WBT may use any of CD’s material for the new edition of his poultry book. Hopes WBT will keep firmly to his idea of working out pigeon variation.
WBT’s beard exceptional in that it is darker than his hair [see Descent 2: 319].
Has read the Field review of Descent ["Darwin on the descent of man", 37 (1871): 210]. Thanks WBT for his remarks.
Points out errata in Descent.
Thanks for gift of WBT’s book [Pheasants for coverts and aviaries (1873)].
Sends Field with an account of the cat show; examples of cats with three extra toes.
Sexual preference of a blue turbit.
CD did not return skull of the horned cock figured in Variation [1: 265].
One of WBT’s poultry skulls has been misplaced; CD cannot believe he neglected to return it.
Has found the skull of the horned cock.
With regard to CD’s suggestion about the possibility of producing a pigeon breed with differently coloured sexes, WBT reports the results of crossing blue and silver dragons; the silver offspring are almost always hens.
Would like the latest edition of the Origin.
Encloses notes on volume one [of Descent].
Encloses a photograph showing the bleaching effect of the sun’s rays on dun feathers in pigeons.
Thanks for information on sexual colours in pigeons.
Will send latest edition of Origin.
Do breeders rear more male than female greyhound puppies?
Gives the answers of two of the best dog breeders to CD’s queries.
Thanks for answering his query on greyhound puppies.
Subscribes to a reprint of Pieter Boddaert’s Table des planches enluminéez d’histoire naturelle [check ‘éez’!?] [1874].
Many thanks for Boddaert [see 9389].
Is preparing new edition of Variation and has a query on speed of racehorses.
Thanks for answer to racehorse query;
would be grateful for correction of any errors in Variation.
Asks if CD would like to subscribe to a reprint of Edward Blyth’s Field articles on cranes.
CD agrees to subscribe to reprint of Blyth’s Field articles on cranes.