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Prefaces Fritz Müller’s observations on termites and stingless bees [see 9281].

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Thanks for facts on inheritance

Thinks CST’s paper (C. S. Tomes 1874) about the enamel on the teeth of the armadillo is most remarkable.

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Do breeders rear more male than female greyhound puppies?

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Orders five works on the Sandwich Islands from the Royal Geographical Society Library for his investigation of infanticide and population trends there.

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Has read GH’s proofs and, although not entirely in agreement, has no criticisms worth sending.

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Asks AG to sign an enclosure [see 9291].

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Has sent FM’s letter on termites to Nature ["Habits of various insects", Nature 10 (1874): 102–3].

Would be interested in observations on the stingless bees of Brazil.

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Thanks for birthday greetings.

Comments on work at Naples Zoological Station. F. M. Balfour to visit Naples. Would like to send third son [Francis Darwin] to learn art of observing marine animals.

Health indifferent.

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Returns proofs; has no criticisms or remarks worth sending.

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Asks HBT to sign certificate [for Royal Society] for Robert Swinhoe.

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At the suggestion of Crichton-Browne CD writes on behalf of his son George, who is making a study of marriages between first cousins and of their offspring to determine the proportion of the latter who may be among the insane, deaf and dumb, idiotic, blind etc. Is GES willing to ask his patients [at the Royal Albert Asylum] for the information relevant to this study?

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Thanks for answering his query on greyhound puppies.

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Does not believe in the possibilty of dog suicide.

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Thanks for copies of HdV’s two articles on climbing plants (Vries 1873a and 1873b).

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Discusses meaning of term "sexual selection".

Comments on variability in males.

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Thanks for his election as Foreign Honorary Member.

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Thanks for LR’s essay on living and fossil turtles [Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Neuchâtel 9 (1873): 439–41].

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CD wishes to acquire a piece of JL’s land.

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Has not the strength to discuss WTG’s letter, and points out that every organism develops from a single cell.

Does not wish to see the Book WTG offered.

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Has given in Descent 2: 12, an account from AG of the brushes on the sides of Monacanthus; has now learned of brush-like scales on the males of Mallotus. Asks whether the two genera are related.