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Thanks correspondent for note and specimen; they will be of use in new edition of Forms of flowers.

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CD’s letter on wide distribution of freshwater plants and animals introduces a letter to him from Arthur H. Gray [see 11497].

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Cannot help with correspondent’s study. CD has a poor ear for music. Recommends Helmholtz’s work.

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Urges publication of an exposure of Williams the spiritualist medium.

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Thanks for congratulations on his coming birthday. Has nothing special to say as a preface to S[erbian] edition [of Origin (1878)], except to hope it is in every way successful.

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Regrets that GJR was passed over for membership in Royal Society. Discusses criteria applied by Council.

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Thanks WCM for plant.

Mentions "your new room" at Down.

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Forwards an unspecified work for FD to read.

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Sends letter and seeds from [F. J. Cohn].

Is working too hard.

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Good article by Fritz Müller in Kosmos supporting August Weismann’s views on caterpillars.

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Pleased EH is translating Forms of flowers. Agrees "cowslip" and "oxlip" ought to be translated by their scientific names.

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Regrets he was not at home when HDG called.

HDG’s observations on the evolution of the human ear are well worth consideration.

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Thanks HM for his review [of Forms of flowers, Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 286].

Thinks HM’s previous article was very important [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 128–40]. CD will "heartily rejoice" if HM has explained the steps by which Rhamnus and Valeriana have been rendered dioecious.

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Is dispatching December number of Kosmos.

Will read the discussion on stridulation that RM mentioned.

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Comments on discovery of micro-organisms in disease.

Describes experiments carried out by Francis Darwin on filaments of Dipsacus.

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Discusses dates when he might meet the prince (Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria) in London, or perhaps the Prince might visit Down.

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Asks about the composition of a spermaceti ointment which he has been buying for some years "because I blackened some young shoots of plants with this ointment mixed with Lamp-black & it produced an extraordinary effect on the shoots, which I think cannot be accounted for merely by the exclusion of light".

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

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CD and son [Francis] working on spontaneous movements of plants and heliotropism.

Has given [Raphael Meldola] permission to read extracts of FM’s last letter [not found], on odours emitted by moths, before Entomological Society [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1878): ii–iii].

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Thanks AE for his book [Estudios sobre la flora y fauna de Venezuela (1877)].

Asks whether glaucous plants in Venezuela are more common in drier areas.