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"If you will apply to any bookseller whatever you will procure a copy.–– Publisher Murray."

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CD appreciates the correspondent’s suggestion.

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Notes on CD’s Expression.

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Cancelled: enclosure to S 9290.

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Has pleasure in signing the [missing] enclosure, with every word of which he fully agrees.

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Discusses two factors possibly causing modification of body or mind of an organism; habit and direct action of external conditions on the one hand, and selection, natural or artificial, on the other; considers their relative importance.

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Is pleased that HHHvZ has appended his notes to his translation [of Expression and is obliged for the abstract of these notes [see 8712].

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Notes on the shoveller, taken from John Gould’s Birds of Great Britain [1862–73].

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Notes referring to passages in Expression [annotated in places by Francis Darwin, presumably when preparing 2d ed.].

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Describes some behaviour in herring gulls similar to that of sheldrakes as described by CD in Expression [pp. 47–8].

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Drosophyllum arrived; none of his observations turned out as he expected, but nevertheless he understands its habits better than he did. The secreting hairs that he observed may be explained as a mere chemical reaction.

Comments on various articles he has read.

Asks for Thiselton-Dyer’s notes.

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Gives opinion on the merits of Mr [Stephen P. J.] Eng[leheart (Darwin family doctor)]. Believes he would make an excellent county officer if elected to the district office of health.

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Notes headed "Observations on the expression of the emotions".

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Has read Expression, and assures CD some people cry when happy.

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Translation of some of his annotations in Dutch edition of Expression.

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"Sir William Gull has just brought me the enclosed quotations from Chaucer, as illustrations of the closure of the eyes in effort. [In "The Nun’s priest’s tale" in Canterbury tales the fox tricks Chanticleer into crowing, whereupon Chanticleer closes his eyes to make the effort (and gets seized by the fox).] He begs me to send them to you.

I have lately seen a terrier who very distinctly frowns during mental excitement – not always with anger, but often, I think, with anxiety, as in expecting food."

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Klein says water ought to be changed daily. Asks to tell G Revalenta shop shut. Klein reports discovery about toads’ ova does not bear on pangenesis.

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On expression among Kaffirs and Hottentots.

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On a humming-bird Sphinx moth which tried to extract nectar from flowers on wallpaper. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 317.]

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HA’s paper on leaf arrangement is almost ready; asks CD to communicate it to the Royal Society. Seeks permission to quote from CD’s notes.