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Agrees with JDH that Cytisus report [presumably of a large change] not sound. CD pleased because, if true, species would change too quickly.
Responds to CD’s queries on Sierra Leone: fertility of European animals introduced to W. Africa, relationship of health and complexion of Europeans, etc.
Sends thanks for receipt of papers and memoranda; praises JSH’s school sermon; regrets that archaeological digs during a recent visit to Derby area were unproductive.
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The bearer has called for the books. Requests volumes of Isis for 1828 and 1829.
CD coming to London.
Read JDH’s review [Hooker’s Kew J. Bot. 8 (1856): 54–64 et seq.] of Alphonse de Candolle’s Géographie botanique raisonnée [1855] long ago.
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Describes microscopic images of bat hair for JSH in a plate illustrating a paper by J. Zuetell.
Note accompanying MS of part of chapter 11 ["Geographical distribution"] of Natural selection [1975].
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CD sorry he had to leave the Hookers abruptly to catch his train.
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Regrets inability to find specimens for JSH as not in London and states that collection containing skeletons of a beaver and alpine hare are in Cambridge with William Clark. Discusses use of JSH’s name in lecture to be published in The Lancet.
Writes to assure JSH that all students taking the Cambridge medical examination should have already passed the botany examination.
Comments on JL’s paper on Daphnia, ["An account of methods of reproduction in Daphnia and of the structure of the ephippium", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 79–100].