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CD will take care of the eight little rabbits. FG outlines their future.

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Roots arising from stems and shoots of brambles.

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WM, a pharmaceutical chemist, sends Stoddard’s pure sea-salts.

Bolton, the chemist FD mentioned, is dead and his books were probably destroyed. His successor, Linford, went bankrupt.

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Sends Fritz Müller’s view that many of the pointed appendages on the tip of the maxilla of Vanessa atalanta are organs of feeling or taste.

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Sends enclosed letters and hopes they are not too late. Letter of 8 July 1881 important because it contains clear statement of CD’s attitude to religious questions.

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Will publish Origin first

and then Descent.

AS is looking for a job in a zoological museum or accompanying an expedition.

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Nomenclature for kinds of heliotropism.

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Suggests sensitive plants that close at night would be protected from nocturnal-feeding snails. JIR’s brother in India says snails occur there in abundance.

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Is sending chapter [of Earthworms] for FD to look over.

Comments on FD’s work on movements of mould.

Is glad to hear about Julius von Sachs and the circumnutation theory.

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Sends [for CD’s possible use] his observations on spines of fir used by worms to block burrows.

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JIR’s "theory" of sensitive plants published in an anonymous letter he sent to the Field 2½ years ago. Mechanisms for protection against insects in sensitive plants.

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Returns certificate he has signed with pleasure.

Emma Darwin will be interested to hear that Charles Bradlaugh was expelled from Parliament.

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On burnt soils.

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Thanks for information about the property in question [Tromer Lodge, see 12842]. His father, Robert Ainslie, had protested a settlement made in an earlier transaction.

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JIR’s brother writes from India in support of the protective function of plant sensitivity.

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Sends an account of an attempt to take a sphygmograph tracing of a woman during fright

and some references that might apply to CD’s work on pulse rates during rage and fright.

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Problem with Charles Reinwald could be solved if CD would ask that French edition [of Erasmus Darwin] follow English. EK willing to co-operate with Reinwald.

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Sends drawings of dogs in different attitudes, drawn by his friend A. May. FD should not trouble CD unless he thinks the drawings will please him. [See Expression, pp. 54–5.]