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Replies to C. R. Bree’s letter of 27 July [Nature 6 (1872): 260] contending that CD was wrong about early pedigree of man.

Defends the statement of CD’s view in Wallace’s review [Nature 6 (1872): 237–9] of Bree’s book [Exposition of fallacies … of Darwin (1872)].

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Will see that the error is corrected in the next reprint.

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Sends quotation from Armand Trousseau, Lectures on clinical medicine [1868–72] 5: 213, on interruption of menstruation in young girls upon changing schools, as an example of the effect of changed conditions of life.

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Sutton says monkeys often vomit, but cannot say whether they do it voluntarily.

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George Snow, the carrier, now leaves Nag’s Head on Thursday mornings.

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Statement of sales of U. S. editions of Origin and Descent.

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CD’s letter inviting him to visit did not reach him till he returned home.

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Has sent sheets of Expression.

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Encloses a letter to Nature [see 8448] correcting Dr Bree, who has accused ARW of "blundering". ARW should tear up CD’s letter if he does not like it or plans to reply himself.

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CD hopes the Times abstract of minutes of Lords of the Treasury will make JDH’s position more comfortable.

The "wretched Lords" make CD indignant, but "nothing equals Owen’s conduct. – I used to be ashamed of hating him so much, but now I will carefully cherish my hatred & contempt to the last day of my life."

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Has sent CD’s letter to Nature [see 8448].

Expresses admiration for H. C. Bastian’s The beginnings of life [1872] and comments on its bearing upon Origin.

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Sends synopsis of his paper "On diversity of evolution" [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 11 (1873): 496–505] in which he attempts to show some of the means, other than natural selection, of modification of species.

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Thanks OH for two memoirs on the fossil flora of Bear Island and Spitzbergen [K. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. 8 (1869) no. 7; 9 (1870) no. 5].

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So far VOK has lost money on his translation of Descent because of pirate editions.

Agrees to share profits on Expression.

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Discusses a paper JTG wanted to read at a BAAS meeting.

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Wishes to come to Down to make arrangements for Russian translation of Expression.

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Alteration in the arrangements for the carrier to collect the rabbit from FG and bring it to Down.

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Sends proofs and details [concerning VOK’s Russian translation of Expression (1872)].

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CD cannot omit mention of Wilhelm Wundt’s Thierseele [Vorlesungen über die Menschen und Thierseele (1863)] in his book.

Murray could control the number of copies of translation of Expression sold in Russia by the number of heliotypes he will supply.

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The carrier will call at University College on Thursday 15 August.