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The correspondence concerns Beale's efforts to obtain seeds of different Verbena species for his research. There are also items of correspondence with Reginald Punnett concerning the publication of Beale's two papers on Verbena in the Journal of Genetics.

Rzasnicki asks permission to use examples of Ewart's work in zebras, in particular The Penycuik Experiments, for his own researches on zebras, and asks Ewart's opinion on different species such as the Ward's zebra.

Baron de Parana gives Ewart permission to publish the letter that he wrote to him about telegony. He adds that he has not yet tried to cross a female ass with a zebra, but that he will keep Ewart informed of his experiments.

Baron de Parana thanks Ewart for sending a copy of his book on telegony. He then lists the six zebra hybrids in his possession, detailing their physical characteristics, and in particular their height and the dappling on their coats. He discusses telegony and 'infection', which he does not believe in. He cites many human examples to disprove the theory of telegony.

Letter is undated. It is not known who made the translation.

Delamarre states that he had read about Ewart's researches in hybridisation in a volume of La Revue Scientifique and was enclosing a photograph of an animal which was currently living in the zoological gardens of the Bois de Boulogne (photograph not present).

Count le Gonidec thanks Ewart for the publications he sent him and offers some observations from the breeding of his own purebred horses in Normandy.