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[A revised version (but also not sent) of the draft letter 12439.]

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Can well understand WN’s new life. WN’s departure a heavy loss.

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Asks THH to advise him about a response to Samuel Butler’s attack accusing CD of dishonesty. Quotes the advice of others but will do what THH advises.

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Thanks RBL for advice [concerning dispute with Samuel Butler]. Notes reaction of family.

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Says it is not likely he will be able to criticise GJR’s work.

Recommends Jean-Henri Fabre, Souvenirs entomologiques [1879].

Encloses letters from J. F. Moulton [12350 and 12356].

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Greatly relieved by THH’s letter [advising against a reply to Samuel Butler].

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Samuel Butler’s fierce attack on CD and EK in Athenæum. CD’s sentence saying that EK had altered his Kosmos article was accidentally omitted from second proofs. Butler insinuates that EK’s attack on his book was suggested by CD or interpolated by him in EK’s text.

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Comments on colours of races of man. Wishes WZS "or anybody else" could account for them.

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On GJR’s work on mental evolution in animals. Emphasises "love" among animals.

Comments on stimulation of plants.

On pleasure and pain.

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CD advises EK on his proposed letter answering Butler.

Considering the favourable reviews, sale of Erasmus Darwin has been poor.

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Thanks for his very kind letter.

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CD thanks RLT for his two notes, a newspaper article, and a copy of RLT’s address honouring him.

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Thanks EK for kind letter.

CD’s date on epitaph is a dreadful mistake. CD often overlooks errata.

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Thanks society of students at Jena for birthday congratulations.

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Thanks for articles by ASW in Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404]. Agrees with him.

Asks about growth of rootlets from knobs caused by fungus on roots of Cruciferae.

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Would be glad to see RLT at Down if he thinks it fit to come there to deliver the address honouring CD.

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Thanks AD and the naturalists at the Station for their birthday congratulations.

CD has been awarded the Bressa prize of the Accademia delle Scienze in Turin, and it occurs to him that if the Station wanted some apparatus costing about £100, he would like to pay for it.

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CD pleased to be of use to GB. He remembers his own work on orchids with pleasure. Thinks GB will be able to improve CD’s terminology for orchids.

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Seed germination.

Strange that his plants [of Megarrhiza] behaved differently from AG’s [see 12455].

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Thanks for the honour conferred upon him by the Epping Forest Field Club.