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Will visit CD on Saturday.

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Sends paper [on ancient Swiss lake-habitations, Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51] for CD’s opinion.

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Congratulates CD on receiving the Copley Medal.

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Dining arrangements.

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Anxious to make acquaintance of Ernst Haeckel [who was staying with CD].

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Returns R. G. Haliburton’s paper ["The unity of the human race proved by the universality of certain superstitions connected with sneezing", reprinted in New materials for the history of man (1863)] and sends one of his own partly in answer to it ["The early condition of man", Anthropol. Rev. 6 (1868): 1–14].

Capital BAAS meeting at Dundee.

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Suicide is rare among savages [see Descent 1: 94].

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Will come to dine on Monday unless he hears to the contrary.

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Hopes to visit tomorrow if CD is up to it.

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CD’s health is bad.

Would like to visit CD on Friday.

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Thanks CD for his review [of H. W. Bates’s paper on mimetic butterflies, Collected papers 2: 87–92].

Is glad Hooker approved of his [JL’s] lecture.

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Is working on a notice for the Natural History Review [n.s. 4 (1864): 37–43] of Huxley’s lectures to working men on the origin of species.

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Has obtained microscopes for CD.

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Thanks for Orchids.

"The big book [Variation] will no doubt go on again now."

JL is writing on Somme implements ["Evidence of antiquity of man", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 244–69].

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JL’s article on Huxley’s "Lectures [to working men]".

Planning a volume of essays [Prehistoric times (1865)].

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JL’s Swiss tour with Tyndall and Huxley.

Lake-habitations.