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Has resolved never to write for periodicals.

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Will GHD ask Lord R[ayleigh] whether "gas-men in testing light, exclude the diffused light".

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Sends a likeness [missing] of a monstrous woman who may be considered as "Darwin’s lost link".

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Is obliged to GHD for arranging everything.

Sorry about the proof-sheets.

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Asks for two property valuations. Is afraid he has made a mistake in CD’s property settlements.

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[Empty cover.]

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Discusses division of Trust. Is concerned Bessy’s portion will be smaller than Henrietta's. Had a pleasant visit in Cambridge. There is a clerical error in the division of CD’s property.

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There is ‘some gradation in perfection with mammals in the mammery glands’. Discusses milk secretion in Echidna. Instances a fish in which the ova hatch in a sack on the male and the young feed on mucus secreted by the sack lining; ‘here … we see what might be the commencement of a simple mammery gland’.

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Sends copy of his Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen [1881]. Disagrees with CD about plant movement.

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Regarding CD’s paper ["Inheritance", Nature 24 (1881): 257; he comments on absence of black sheep at his father’s sheep station.

Notes that the repeated brandings of sheep produce no inherited effect, and a woman’s withered leg was not inherited by her children.

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Thanks JW for book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Discusses movement in plants.

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WG is a candidate for a new chair at University College, Liverpool. Asks CD’s permission to use extracts from his letter [13230] for a testimonial.

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Thanks for presentation copy of Earthworms.

Describes a worm from Ceylon.

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Asks whether he and W. M. Ord may call on CD.

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Invites JSB and W. M. Ord to Down, and gives instructions for getting there.

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Encloses a cheque for £11.5.0 for subscriptions from CD and members of his family.

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Thanks CD for Earthworms and comments on it.

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Giving his opinion on the possible role of earthworms in the dilapidation of a pier in Llandaff Cathedral.

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On the effects of a mother’s imagination on a new-born child. Reports that a hen, startled by an alarm clock, laid eggs with clock faces on them.

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Thanks for Earthworms.