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Sends a communication [missing] from Gov. J. H. Lefroy of Bermuda.

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Arranges to visit CD at Down.

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Hopes to have a visit to discuss proportions to be left to the children under their wills; thinks 5/6 to the boys, 1/6 to the girls who "will have as much as is good for them".

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Studying palaeontology, as the British Museum is closed.

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Thanks CD for criticisms of his paper; explains why there is greater diversity among succeeding generations than in the first.

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Thanks for Expression.

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William [Hooker] is in first division of matriculation list of London University.

Other family news.

No news on Ayrton affair. Ayrton has taken staff appointments out of JDH’s hands.

Asks whether CD knows about Zizania aquatica – can hardly believe it is an annual.

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CD cannot omit mention of Wilhelm Wundt’s Thierseele [Vorlesungen über die Menschen und Thierseele (1863)] in his book.

Murray could control the number of copies of translation of Expression sold in Russia by the number of heliotypes he will supply.

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His visit to Down.

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Asks CD for seeds of some plants.

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Discusses the mental powers and habits of animals and considers that those of man are not separated from those of animals by any sort of fundamental barrier; the gulf seems formidable only from a self-conscious, human point of view. Man’s important distinction is his greater ability to act and respond independently of external stimuli, in consequence of his internal accumulation of personal experience.

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Thanks for CD’s photograph, which recalls the Charles Darwin of olden days.

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Thanks CD for his note and cheque for young May.

Will send copy of second edition of Erewhon, in which he has set himself straight about "having intended no villainy by the machines". [See 8318.]

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Gladstone’s private secretary [West] has written that the Government plans to alter JDH’s position with regard to the First Commissioner of Works [Ayrton].

Huxley is not better after his Brighton trip.

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Has not seen CD for about 25 years. Has heard an absurd story that CD and Emma are exploring an unknown part of America.

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Reminisces on the evening he, B. J. Sulivan, and J. C. Wickham from the Beagle spent with CD, nearly ten years ago.

Hopes the mission at Tierra del Fuego will not "improve" the people to extinction.

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Plans for visit to CD.

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VOK is marking the passages [in Wundt, Menschen und Thierseele (1863)] that may interest CD.

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Is delighted to receive expression. Some comments on swallowing and scratching. Asks to be sent reviews.

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In England to write a monograph on Anthracotherium.