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Requests testimonial from CD for position of Assistant Keeper, Zoological Dept, British Museum.

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Since he was innocent of sending the Botanische Zeitung to CD, he inquired of the editor, who informs him that it is sent every week by post by order of Williams and Norgate.

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Thanks for criticisms of Colour-sense.

Clarifies his views that actions desirable for species result in development of nervous organs capable of pleasurable stimulation.

Believes that all "tastes" occurring in nature are explicable with reference to ancestral habits and that none is purely arbitrary.

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Thanks CD profusely for the circular which detailed his and Emma Darwin’s plans to increase their children’s income. Thinks a few hundred really makes the difference for feeling really rich, especially as he now knows how important it is for bankers to have available personal savings.

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Describes health-related arguments for vegetarianism. Notes arguments that anthropoid apes are vegetarians. Asks whether man is sufficiently adapted to mixed diet so that meat is not harmful?

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Encloses a press clipping [missing] of his observations [on stem structure?].

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Did not wish to imply that some leaves are insensitive to light, only that he could not measure their sensitivity. Contraction of roots seems common.

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Has not been able to complete Bohemian edition of Origin because of trip to Africa.

Is collecting zoological evidence for CD’s theory.

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Is applying for the Chair of Botany at Edinburgh and asks CD for a testimonial.

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Sends results of the first year’s experiments with the Russian wheat varieties sent by CD [see 11483].

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A founding member of the Royal Agricultural Society sends information on the specificity of sheep varieties to soil types.

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Sleep movements in Oxalis acetosella.

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Sends family news;

describes what remains of his "menagerie" and tells of his interest in the framework of his son’s German badger-hound.

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Astonished at circular and will risk revolutions to invest. Describes Blidah, Algeria.

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Thanks CD [for his increased allowance?].

Writes of his tour [in Algeria].

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CD elected an honorary member of the New York Academy of Sciences.

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Has read Krause’s "Life of Erasmus Darwin" [Kosmos 4 (1879): 397–424]; thinks it very interesting to anyone interested in "Darwinismus" – everybody.

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Asks CD about translation of title-page of Kosmos.

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Is reading Origin on inheritance. Reports case of a man who went bald through illness, whose three sons, all born later, also became bald.

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Suggests CD send Kosmos to W. S. Dallas as Krause will surely give his permission for translation.