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Statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin.

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Encloses Mrs Gray’s notes on expression among Arabs.

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Has sent CD some Drosera specimens.

Returns to U. S. on 9 November.

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Announces his return to England.

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Thanks for answers about expression.

Is going to N. Wales to recover after his riding accident.

New edition of Origin.

French edition of Orchids.

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As CD is to be in London, AG will try to get to Queen Anne St to see him.

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Sorry to hear of CD’s accident.

Recounts his travels.

Jane Gray writes a description of the Arabs.

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Introduces his son Alexander; believes CD will find him "more tractable" on certain questions than LA himself is.

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The "man-essay" [Descent] is "very interesting but very difficult".

Cat-like behaviour in dogs.

Thanks for information from Louis Agassiz;

wishes he could feel he deserves what Alexander Agassiz says of him.

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Believes AG’s cases of incipient dimorphism are due to mere variability. Has found examples in Nolana and Amsinckia; believes such variation is the basis for the development of dimorphism. Was unaware of variations in Phlox.

Sensitivity of Drosera and Dionaea.

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Has two young friends who wish to call on CD.

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Sends CD a German pamphlet, "War Goethe ein Darwinianer?"

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Writes at length on the origins and meanings of particular head movements as used to express assent or disagreement, especially the sideways movements of the head as an expression of consideration or contemplation.

Also discusses space and colour perception.

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CD long anxious for new American edition of Origin to incorporate corrections since 2d ed. [of 1860]; believes such updating has kept English and continental sales high. If Appleton unable to comply, he will ask Asa Gray to find another publisher.

Mentions possible arrangements for U. S. edition of new book [Descent].

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About a dog she supposes was suckled by a cat, since it washes its face with its paws.

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Thanks CD for R. W. Darwin’s memoranda respecting Franklin. Would be grateful for copies of any Franklin letters that exist among Dr Darwin’s papers.

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Thanks for information about expression.

Comments on JC-B’s photographs of insane people.

Sends copy of Duchenne [see 6755].

Asks for further information about platysma, his bête noire for a year or two.

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Wants observations on a Papilio to see whether ticking noise is confined to one sex.

Experiments on self-sterility.

Will send copy of his orchid paper ["Fertilisation of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56].

Eschscholzia when self-fertilised, produced pods.

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Observations on expression and colour of beard and hair in natives of India.