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Preparing new edition of Origin and asks for JDH’s corrections and criticisms.

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Third edition of Origin will answer reviewers.

Drosera experiments detailed.

Hopes for W. H. Harvey’s conversion.

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Henry Fawcett’s article on Origin [Macmillan’s Mag. 3 (1860): 81–92] quotes JDH’s Oxford speech.

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On JDH’s suggestions for new edition of Origin.

Gray’s Atlantic Monthly articles to be published [in England] as a pamphlet.

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Analysing results of last spring’s Primula experiments, CD infers pollen of short-styled plants "suits" long-styled plants.

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Sends JDH note on adaptation of an Australian Compositae for dispersal in dry climate. Is it too trivial to publish? [Collected papers 2: 36–8].

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Feels his poor stomach "saved" him from overworking his head.

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CD’s opinion of minor critics and commentators on Origin.

H. C. Watson’s notion of genera converging is dismissed.

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Changes in admission to Athenaeum.

Slowly working at his volume on Variation.

Experiments on insectivorous and "sensitive" plants.

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Henrietta’s continuing poor health. JDH’s suggestion to rub her with cod-liver oil.

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Asa Gray’s pamphlet.

Ill health.

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Invitation to Down for weekend with Huxley and W. B. Carpenter.

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Argument, based on geographical distribution and competition, for a mundane glacial period rather than cooling of one longitudinal belt at a time.

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Lieut. F. W. Hutton’s original review [Geologist 4 (1861): 132–6, 183–8] understands that mutability cannot be directly proved.

CD met Bentham at Linnean Society and asked him to write up his views on mutability.

Opinion of Owen.

Conversation with Lyell on antiquity of man.

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Henslow is dying.

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H. W. Bates’s excellent article against glacial period [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 5 (1860): 352–3] leaves CD "dumbfounded".

H. C. Watson’s hostility.

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Affectionate regards to Henslow.

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CD infers [incorrectly] from Huxley’s report that Henslow is dead.

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CD misunderstood Huxley: Henslow is not dead.

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Offers to go to Henslow despite his own poor health.