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Thanks RM for note on ocelli.

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Would like to subscribe to English edition of Weismann.

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Apologises for the trouble he has caused RM. Encloses letter [13280] which has been returned to CD [by August Dupré, to whom CD had sent it in error].

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Thanks RM for information on case of hexadactyly [see RM’s paper, "Hexadactylism", Land and Water, 11 March 1871, p. 179.

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Invites RM to keep some specimens as long as he wishes.

Recalls vaguely the mention of a butterfly species in which the male alone is mimetic.

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Asks RM to send a copy of the Entomological Society’s Proceedings to Fritz Müller.

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Thinks RM may like to see the enclosed [Fritz Müller letter].

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RM should take no more trouble over the subject [Otto Zacharias’ photos; see 11510].

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Is glad RM will draw up a paper from Fritz Müller’s letter.

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Does not think the Petunia is anything remarkable.

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Invites RM to luncheon.

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Sends the Fritz Müller article from Kosmos.

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Thanks RM for his interesting paper ["Entomological notes bearing on evolution", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 5th ser. 1 (1878): 155].

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Thinks there can be no objection to RM’s using a Fritz Müller letter [see 11319].

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Hopes RM finds a publisher [for his translation of Weismann’s Studien].

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Interesting article by Fritz Müller on sexual selection in butterflies, Kosmos [1 (1877): 388–95].

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Feels it would be worth while but difficult to investigate mimicked and mimicking forms for structural similarities that would indicate a closer alliance in the past.

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Thanks RM for his paper on mimicry.

Cannot answer RM’s query because he believes it impossible to define large variations.

Believes monstrosities are generally injurious and are not often, if ever, taken advantage of in nature.

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Mentions the difficulties in explaining the separation of sexes and Carl Nägeli’s view that the sexes of plants were primordially distinct.

Has been experimenting for five or six years to demonstrate that the benefits of crossing are the same as those derived from a slight change of conditions.

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Has received interesting essay from August Weismann on sexual selection in daphnoids [“Schmuckfarben der Daphnoiden”, Z. Wiss. Zool. (1878)].