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Thanks for letter of sympathy.

Would like to visit in May.

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Thanks for permission to use CD’s observations on instinct. Would like to use CD’s MS chapter in preparing forthcoming book [Mental evolution in animals (1883)].

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Thanks for permission to use CD’s MS chapter on instinct for forthcoming book.

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GJR’s speech at Dublin [BAAS meeting] was an enormous success, with tremendous applause at mention of CD’s name at the finale.

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Thanks for comments on his lecture ["Nervous system of Medusa"]

and for information [about J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie (1876)].

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Thanks for letter and book [J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie (1876)].

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Thinks conservation of energy not evidence for Deity. Agrees with CD that there is little hope to illuminate subject with light of intellect. Intends to drop it.