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Reports on difference between first and second plantings of beans.

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Sends an account of different colours and shapes of seeds raised from ordinary seeds of scarlet runner. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 151.]

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At work on the introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae.

Discusses the effects of climate and geography on "vegetable strife".

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Refers to CD’s article "Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers" in Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 2: 19–25] and asks how forced beans flower in winter when no insect is on the wing.

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Replies to CD’s question on whether beans in first or second year were planted near any other varieties.

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K. E. von Baer’s view of the air bladder of fishes.

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Would appreciate loan of CD’s chapter on transmigration across tropics, which may help with the difficulties of Australian distribution.

Still regards plant types as older than animal types.

The Cape of Good Hope and Australian temperate floras cannot be connected by the highlands of Abyssinia.

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JDH cannot abide CD’s connection of wide-ranging species and "highness". Australian flora contradicts this in many ways.

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Responds to CD’s queries about the thickness of various geological formations. [See Origin, p. 284.]

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Reports his observations on an ants’ nest.

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Discusses instinct in ducks and turkeys.

Reports a case of the inheritance of an acquired characteristic in a pig.

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[Copy of some rough notes.] References about species. Variations within species.