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He is vexed that CD has had to write again about the index. He has no excuse except "the nature of the work itself".

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Regrets that the remarks in his letter [5712] seemed to CD to be criticisms. Nothing was further from his intention. He is working hard. "The subjects often seem to elude the Index-maker."

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Thanks AG for information.

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WSD is pushing forward as fast as he can with [index to] second volume [of Variation]. The work is fearfully heavy.

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Will return Federico Delpino’s two pamphlets soon.

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Sends a copy of his paper in Ibis [2d ser. 2 (1866): 88–109] on the birds of the Azores,

and one by G. R. Crotch on the Coleoptera [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1867): 359–91].

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Introduction of humble-bees into Australia.

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Has received a copy of an attack on CD ["Darwinian theory examined"] from the author, but does not know who it is.

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Invites RT to come to Down for a week-end.

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Discusses the reception of CD’s views at Cambridge and elsewhere.

Variation delayed by the index, but will appear at the end of the year.

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Will have to delay starting on the bust of CD.

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Some corrections and queries about Variation text. Is pushing hard to finish, but CD is right that the names in the notes make the work interminable. Fears he is causing delay in publication. Is astonished at "the wonderful array of facts brought together and at the manner in which you bring them to bear".

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Thanks for copy of HS’s First principles [? 2d ed. (1867)].

Comments on HS’s Principles of biology [1864, 1867].

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Asks CD to write a letter on his behalf to John Murray. CJG plans to translate Eduard Maetzner’s Englische Grammatik [1860–5] if publication can be arranged.

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Hopes to get afternoon train from Victoria.

Woolner comes on Sunday morning.

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Sends his photograph.

Asks for any information of well-marked sexual differences in snakes, batrachians, or lizards. The rattlesnakes at the Zoological Garden differ considerably in colour.

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On ocelli.

Sexual differences and proportion of sexes in butterflies.

Coleoptera.

[See Descent 1: 310; 2: 132.]

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On the summer, or breeding, plumage of birds.

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Left his box of plants in dog-cart [on his visit to Down].

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Introduces Clair Grece who wishes to translate a work on English grammar from the German.