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Salmon and trout increase in size with river.

Wishes to show CD fish hatchery near Hampton Court.

Quoted CD’s book on self-destruction within species in a salmon arbitration case.

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Sends paper on mimetic analogy [Intellect. Obs. 6 (1864): 307–13].

Mongrel experiments are progressing, but he has observed no signs of sterility.

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Has received CD’s Copley Medal for him. Conveys regrets of Royal Society at his absence.

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Discusses the affairs of the late Edward Evans for whom CD and EAD are trustees.

Has got CD’s [Copley] Medal, "it is rather ugly to look at, & too light to turn into candlesticks".

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Sends photo for B. D. Walsh; requests those of New World entomologists, and CD’s.

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Recounts row at the Royal Society over exclusion of mention of Origin from Sabine’s address awarding Copley Medal to CD.

Encloses two letters to JDH from James Hector in New Zealand.

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The [Royal Society] President’s address is in the Reader [4 (1864): 708–9], but one or two sentences have been omitted.

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Congratulates CD on the Copley Medal.

Is making inquiries on the habits of American cuckoos and sends a letter from Henry Bryant on that subject.

Discusses the Civil War.

Encloses letter from W. H. Leggett containing observations on Amphicarpaea.

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Congratulates CD on the Copley Medal.

Directs CD to his short memoir on crossing ["De l’hybridité", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 59 (1864): 837–45].

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Acknowledges the receipt of CD’s letter on behalf of her husband, who is unwell.

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Sabine’s address, printed in the Reader [4 (1864): 708–9], is good on the whole. Sends Huxley’s account of the row.

Praises John Ruskin’s eloquent reply to Jukes.

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Sorry to hear CD ill.

On his return from Galway, will arrange with CD about visiting and showing him his specimens.

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Fossil flora of the Carboniferous. Variation of forms found in coal analogous to succession of forms in peat-bogs.

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Sends a power of attorney to be executed and sent to the Old Bank; asks acknowledgment.

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Sends addresses of Planchon, Hofmeister, and Schleiden.

Hermann Crüger left no widow.

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Vexed at the address of the President of the Royal Society [on award of Copley medal to CD].

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Sends CD part two of his anatomical papers [Anatomical and physiological observations (1863) [part 1 (1854)]]; thinks CD may be interested in the paper dealing with variation in numbers of digits in man. Draws CD’s attention to another variation: the occurrence of a supra-condyloid process in the human arm.