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Thanks for name of grass.

Plans to go to Isle of Wight on 17 July.

Frank cannot come to Kew, as he will be reading this long vacation at Cambridge.

Delighted with Bentham’s Presidential Address [Linnean Society, 1868].

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Asks WED to observe blushing in the blind, and yawning.

Mentions elephants’ crying while trumpeting.

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AG’s coming visit to England.

Hooker’s Presidency of BAAS.

A month at the Isle of Wight has done almost nothing for CD.

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Has come to Freshwater for five weeks for his health. Sends regrets to Prof. Kühne at not being able to see him.

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Sends some answers to CD’s queries on expression, based on his observations of Abyssinians.

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Looks forward to seeing JDH and hearing about address.

Feels better already.

Disappointed in house [they have taken at Freshwater].

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Will send English edition [of Variation] when available.

Mentions revisions in second issue concerning graft-hybrids.

Asks for Euryale seed for experiment.

Discusses fertility of crossed and self-fertilised plants.

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CD relays the advice of Sir W. R. Grove on the dismal prospects of a law career.

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Coloration of butterflies; brilliantly coloured females.

Commends CD on his paper on specific differences in Primula [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 437–54; reprinted and revised in Forms of flowers] as a test-case proving origin of real species.

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CD thanks JBI for contribution to Down school.

George [Darwin] has passed his examination at Cambridge;

Henrietta has been poorly.

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Discusses how they might enquire about any provisions in the laws of partnership concerning lunacy.

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Discusses tuition arrangements for Horace Darwin.

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Congratulates CD on George’s success at Cambridge.

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Hopes JJM can visit tomorrow and stay the night.

Would like to ask Carl Vogt if he is still in London.

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Thanks GHL for his support of Pangenesis.

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Sorry JJW cannot visit.

Will go to sea-side for five weeks at end of July.

Does Vidua have double annual moult? [See Descent 2: 181.]

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Gives his opinion on a business transaction involving WED and the Southampton bank.

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Thanks for Casimir de Candolle’s paper ["Théorie de l’angle unique en phyllotaxie", Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. 23 (1865): 199–212].

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Has talked with J. J. Sylvester [Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich] and thinks Leonard [Darwin] should call on him.

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Sends an ear of wheat with two florets of oats growing out of it. Expects it will all turn out a humbug.

Berkeley’s address in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1868): 920, also Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): 83–7] praises CD tremendously.