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Asks him to visit.

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Describes difficulty of obtaining pigs for experiment.

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Thanks GJR for his second letter replying to Butler [Nature 23 (1880–1): 335–6].

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Comments on GJR’s view of animal consciousness. Mentions experiment on learning among worms.

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Suggests transplanting plant ovaries to test Pangenesis.

None of the cats released in experiment found its way back.

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Encloses notice about Wilhelm Roux’s book [see 13118].

Comments on John Collier’s portrait.

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Asks him to visit.

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Discusses difficulties involved in plant experiment designed to test Pangenesis.

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Suggests CD delay arrangements for his Linnean Society portrait. GJR thinks John Collier would be willing to paint it.

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Agrees to sit for portrait. Thinks John Collier is a good artist, an opinion based on his portrait of Hooker.

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Is returning to Down.

Rejoices that GJR writes so much in Nature.

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Intends experiment to see if cats released in country can find their way back.

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Comments on the meaning of his definition of the term, "animal intelligence". Encloses further discussion from his forthcoming book [Earthworms].

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Thanks GJR for his review of Earthworms [Nature 24 (1881): 553–6].

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Discusses subscription for Grant Allen. Suggests present of microscope.

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Declines to provide testimonial for J. C. Ewart, since he has already done so for Lankester. Was also asked by W. C. M’Intosh.

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Has read with interest GJR’s review [of Samuel Butler, Unconscious memory (1880)] in Nature [23 (1880–1): 285–7]. Heroic of GJR to call down [Butler’s] revenge on his own head. Ernst Krause’s letter [Nature 23 (1880–1): 288] very good.

As magistrate, CD must enforce rules regarding infection in pigs.

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Discusses GJR’s controversy with the Duke [of Argyll] concerning Roux’s book [Der Kampf der Theile im Organismus (1881)].

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Declines to write testimonial for J. C. Ewart.

Says if W. C. McIntosh ‘were to apply again, I could not refuse to allow him to use again my former testimonial’.

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Only more sensitive seedlings respond to flashing light.

CD’s letter to Times ["On vivisection", 22 Apr 1881] in every way admirable.

GJR to be Zoological Secretary of Linnean Society.

Has decided on arrangement of material for his books Animal intelligence [1882]

and Mental evolution in animals [1883].