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In answer to CD’s queries, relates further details about feral sheep: they are sterile when wild, but can become tame again.
Role of humming-birds in plant fertilisation.
Alexander Agassiz has visited Down.
Sales of Facts and arguments for Darwin.
Encloses copy of T. H. Farrer letter [7015] and observations on the self-sterility of Eschscholzia.
Discusses some calculations which he is doing for CD on the ratios of red and brown colouring in some animals.
[Summary in JH's hand:] Enquiry about Henry John Hollier's request for advance on mortgage. Enclosed form to be signed by JH [as co-trustee] or chief accountant of Bank of England. [JH note: signed form and returned it to Anderson and Shonbridge. Forwarded letter to Few & Co.]
Sending JH a set of stereograms of prisms.
No summary available.
Inquires about arrangements for the German translation and publication of their original Linnean Society papers [Collected papers 2: 3–19].
ARW thinks he has hit upon a solution to problem of geological time.
Further comments on arrangements for German translation of their joint paper.
Encloses a letter to which he had replied and saw no need for further attention.
Is glad CD likes the new edition [of Prehistoric times].
Has been lecturing in Scotland.
Grateful for JH's interest in survey of Sinai Peninsula and loan of JH's theodolite. [H. S.] Palmer will visit JH and receive instruction in its use. Asks to name JH as co-trustee of survey with Henry James.
Provides further detail on his smooth-leaved holly tree with a spiny-leaved branch; his gardener asserts no budding or grafting has taken place.
Asks CD’s advice on procuring rabbits for experiments [to test Pangenesis by transfusing alien blood into does and breeding from them].
Sends seeds of Lathyrus and suggests an advantage of climbing plants is to shed their seeds in places secure from animals.
Contrary to F. Delpino, in JTM’s experience Ophrys aranifera is not sterile. However, seed germination is poor.
In a densely overgrown plot Convolvulus sabatius, not normally a twiner, becomes one.
Continues his extensive study on variability in Arbutus, and speculates on selection in fruit shape.
JH and R. I. Murchison have agreed to be trustees [of Sinai survey; see PB's 1869-12-9]. Subscriptions to support survey. Sends description of expedition. Royal Geological Society unanimously approved survey.
CD’s letter on his behalf made a great impression, but his candidacy nevertheless failed, largely owing to the hostility of Claude Bernard. CD’s opinion sustains his belief that his work will be a service to science.
Has given the right of translation [of Descent] to Julius Victor Carus of Leipzig, so the recipient should inform Alexander Duncker to communicate with JVC.
Admiring 'working man' requests signature to be placed under JH's portrait as 'a remembrance of a great astronomer.'
Calls attention to sunspots then visible. [Written by JH under the pseudonym 'Helioscopus']
Sending a little volume of poetry written by his wife.