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Expresses his pleasure at GHD’s degree.

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Observations on expression in her baby daughter.

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Observations on the first appearance of tears in a baby.

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Has been working with G. R. Crotch on stridulation. The sexual theory seems very shaky.

Is sending preparations of beetles.

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Too late to observe baby’s tears.

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Thinks J. D. Hooker and Asa Gray will not be able to visit Down until after the 12th.

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Crying in babies.

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He and Lizzie [Elizabeth Darwin] will come to Kew on Saturday.

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Hopes Miss [Sarah Elizabeth] Wedgwood will sell part of her land for a parsonage at Down. Recounts his futile efforts to obtain land in the past.

Encloses news item about the supposed hybrid [of cow and deer].

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Observations on a Sphinx moth; attraction of dark spots.

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Writes to express his pleasure at Leonard’s success [second in the Woolwich Academy entrance examination].

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Hybrid geese.

Proportions of sexes in sheep and cattle.

Pairing habits of crows.

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Asks WED to observe a suppressed yawn.

Asks whether scratching a tickling point makes tears come to his eyes.

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Some observations by EL on moths visiting flowers.

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Writes about difficulties in which S. J. O. Horsman, curate at Down, has involved himself and others. Horsman has said he would resign. JBI offers to give up his interests in the living at Down.

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Describes work with pollinia of another Orchis species.

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Crying in babies.

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Describes his lectures on CD’s theory.

Thanks CD for copy of Variation. Comments on book.

Describes work of two protégés in Jena: Nicolas von Miklucho[-Maclay] and Anton Dohrn.

His cousin, Wilhelm Bleek, is sending an article about the origin of language.

Asks to keep book a few months longer but will return it if CD needs it [Webb and Berthelot, Histoire naturelle des Îles Canaries, vol. 3, pt 1: Géographie botanique (1840)].

Describes research on Siphonophora.

Describes life in Jena. Mentions alpine accident during wedding trip.

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Reports her sister-in-law’s observations of her child, up to three months old, while crying and screaming.

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Has received English edition of Variation. First volume of German edition came three months ago. Comments on book.

Will send copy of recent lectures on human evolution [Entstehung des Menschengeschlechts (1868)]. Gegenbaur much interested in the subject.

Considers Selachius the ancestral form of the fish and hence of all higher vertebrates. Believes their swim-bladder became lung of amphibians.

Mentions cases of hybrid crosses between rabbits and hares producing fertile offspring.