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Lists of Acacia and Eucalyptus species.

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Thanks for Forms of flowers.

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Sexual selection, he thinks, must be left to others to settle. "Conscious" will be substituted for "voluntary" selection. Sound- and scent-producing organs attributed to "natural", not "conscious", selection.

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Report of child with tail and man with four nipples.

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An example of inheritance confined to one sex.

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In Descent [1: 12] CD discusses intoxication among animals. South African elephants reportedly eat a plant that makes them wild.

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Cites another example of inheritance of maternal impressions.

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Has reread copy of Fritz Müller’s letter that CD sent some time ago and would like to publish the entomological observations in it.

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Sends a list of errata in Forms of flowers.

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Pleased with CD’s interest in temperance. Can he quote CD? Sorry the elephant story is a myth. It fits his argument for temperance: a passion for alcohol is natural [primitive]. Only the morally developed can resist. Moral development will take a long time. Thus education cannot cure alcoholism now. Thus public sale of alcohol must be outlawed. Although he is a follower of J. S. Mill and Herbert Spencer he has been forced to this conclusion.

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Criticises passages of Insectivorous plants. Suggests plants be weighed before and after feeding to prove they have gained nourishment.

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Young Belgian students [L. A. Errera and Gustave Gevaert] ask CD to read their paper, which summarises Cross and self-fertilisation. They criticise CD’s views on the comparative effects of crossing flowers on the same stem and fertilisation of a flower by its own pollen ["Sur la structure et les modes de fécondation des fleurs", Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 17 (1878): 38–181, 182–248].

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Describes data relating to variability of Primula elatior.

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Encloses Fritz Müller’s letter.

Is exhibiting butterflies in which variations in the female show a finely graded series. Believes dimorphism can be explained by the selection of the extremes of such a series and the consequent extinction of the intermediates.

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Has received CD’s book [Forms of flowers]; thanks him for the compliment of the dedication.

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Has noticed citation of his observations in CD’s latest books; writes to add some notes on fertilisation and forms of flowers.

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Sending MS.

Used Anton Kerner’s nomenclature for designating crosses.

Thanks CD for Forms of flowers.

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CD named corresponding member of the Geographical Society of Lisbon.

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Cotyledon sleep movement in Haematoxylon.

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Notes the movements of leaves of Euphorbia jacquiniaeflora in response to light intensity.