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Intends to name his son after CD.

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Reports on expression in his Pomeranian dog.

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Sends album of photographs of German scientists as birthday honour.

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Sends specimen of Gilia aggregata and will try to get Phlox subulata.

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Sends holly specimens. Differences in flowering times of various hollies.

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Sends birthday wishes. Album of photographs from German admirers has been sent.

Plans trip to Mediterranean.

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Sends specimens of two forms of Rhamnus lanceolata.

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Sends birthday greetings. Asks for autographed photograph.

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CD made a corresponding member of the Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte.

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Sends another extract [from Diseases of women (1877)].

Has reviewed Cross and self-fertilisation in the Spectator.

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Reports on French translations of Cross and self-fertilisation, Climbing plants, and Insectivorous plants.

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Thanks CD for Orchids. Has written a notice for Chelmsford Chronicle.

Finds some botanical observations on inflorescences.

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Édouard Heckel of Grenoble is translating Cross and self-fertilisation.

Expression has sold out; wants a new edition.

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Attributes the Castilian accent of speech of deaf and dumb men to imitation of their teachers’ lip movements.

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Thanks CD for his advice. No doubt one may be misled by a few experiments in matters on which many forces come into play. Describes his plans to observe the flowering of 23 plants of Lychnis gilhago raised from a single capsule.

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Gives an example of atavism in American cattle.

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Was CD already convinced of evolution when he published Journal of researches?

Photograph album will be late coming.

Evolutionary magazine to appear in March under title of Kosmos.

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Thanks for Cross and self-fertilisation.

His work on poppy varieties confirms increased vigour with crossing.

JS is carrying out opium poppy experiments CD suggested. He is busy with opium duties. Observing many fields of poppies, day and night, JS finds them remarkably free of insects. Believes they are wind-pollinated and that varieties have prepotent pollen since he has shown they do not cross naturally.

Plans to send a paper on Cyclosis to Linnean Society.

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Wants to know how to obtain The thoughts of Marcus Aurelius, mentioned in Descent [1: 106].

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Comments on CD’s Cross and self-fertilisation: its usefulness to florists, and his solution of a long standing puzzle in showing the increase of monstrosities in self-fertilised plants.