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Reports catching a landrail on board ship.
Encloses drawings of insects caught at sea.
Lyell and CD would urge JDH to make his essays into a book, but see he has embarked on a huge project with G. Bentham [Genera plantarum, 3 vols. (1862–83)].
Asks if JP can send criticism of Origin.
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JDH coming to Down. Huxley will be invited.
Thanks HGB [for his Morphologische Studien (1858)].
Pleased at quickness of translation.
W&N have not yet received the German edition of the Origin.
Recommend French–English and French dictionaries.
Comments on QdeB’s [Études sur les maladies actuelles du ver à soie (1860)].
Has failed to find French publisher for Origin.
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Reminds JSH to send "sketch & account of the wasp’s comb in transitional state from horizontal to vertical, & the country whence procured".
Asks for information on spread of Anacharis [Elodea].
Sedgwick [in criticism of Origin] was not very fair, but Murray says it is splendid for selling copies to "the unfortunate students".
Has studied CD’s Jamaican hive-bees and finds them identical to Apis mellifica.
Discusses the structure of wasps’ and bees’ nests
and the occurrence of winged and apterous individuals within some insect genera and species.
Comments enthusiastically on WBC’s review ["The theory of development in nature", Br. & Foreign Med.-Chir. Rev. 25 (1860): 367–404].
Sketch and description of a [wasp’s] nest from Cuba. [Notes by CD on wasps’ nests and comb-building habits of hive-bees.]
Facts and inferences relating to different varieties of sweetpeas.
Asks for information about Anacharis.
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