Dear Mr Darwin—

I am very much obliged to you for returning Mr Moseley’s Certificate with the right name in the right place—¹

Also for the picture of the Goat also French gentleman’s letter which I understand I may keep.² I have been getting quantities of boxes from Ireland in the hopes of getting some of their early pig, and I have various agents looking out for Richardson’s pig. But though of course there must be some pig bones in every cargo from Ireland they sometimes have been only in a minority amongst Deer, Horse, Cow &c!³

Dr Emil Bessels’ paper is in the Archiv für Anthropologie Bd viii. 1875. p 107. He was one of a crew of an Arctic ship part of which was obliged to winter 1873–1874 and also spent part of the summer of 1874 in NL. 78^o. Long. 61^o. near Ita on Smith’s Sound— In looking through his paper I find that instead of connecting these poor people with Miocene Man he more scientifically looks at them as representations of Glacial man— He thinks them to be degenerated inasmuch as they have no longer either Boats or Bows & arrows though they retain the names for these commodities— It is curious that in spite of this some of them (there are only about 100 left in the horde) are as much as 6 feet in heighth.

I enclose the two passages I referred to in my last—⁴

Please do not trouble yourself to answer this—

I am | Yours very Truly | George Rolleston