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Thinks Insectivorous plants must be translated and published in Germany.

Journal of researches nearly finished.

A new [German] edition of Origin is wanted.

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Queries concerned with his translation of Insectivorous plants, which has been delayed by illness but is now two-thirds done.

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Sends list of misprints in first edition of Insectivorous plants for the German collected works.

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Insectivorous plants is out

and Climbing plants is at the printer’s.

He is now at work on the geological writings.

Thinks all of CD’s papers extremely interesting "for the spirit and the method".

Cites some misprints in Climbing plants.

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A difficulty with a passage in Coral reefs about "vertical thickness", which JVC thinks should read "horizontal extent".

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Queries about some references in Coral reefs and a list of misprints.

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Thanks CD for [2d English edition of] Volcanic islands and South America [1876].

Is at work on Cross and self-fertilisation. Asks about some doubtful points.

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Lists misprints in Cross and self-fertilisation.

Sends observations and references relevant to a new edition of Expression.

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Is unconvinced that correction in Cross and self-fertilisation requested by CD [see 10852] should be made. Asks CD to reconsider.

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A curious error – too late to change: in Cross and self-fertilisation CD has "cleistogenous" for "cleistogamous" flowers throughout.

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Cites a misprint in Orchids.

Asks how long Forms of flowers will be, and publication date.

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Sends a list of errata in Forms of flowers.

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A misprint in Variation.

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Inquires about a rumour that CD or Francis Darwin is preparing a new book on the "Power of inheritance".

Tells CD of his new periodical: Zoologische Anzeiger.

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Will be happy to translate CD’s new book [Movement in plants]. Asks how large the book will be.

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Some sheets [of Movement in plants] are missing. Is delighted with its "lesson of methods of observation patience and thought".

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Discusses Ernst Krause’s publication of an extract from Earthworms translated into German in the journal Kosmos.

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Koch [of Schweizerbart, publisher of CD’s works in Germany and also publisher of Kosmos] has asked JVC to translate Earthworms and send one chapter of it to Kosmos for advance separate publication. He thinks a chapter on the practical work of the earthworms would be most interesting to the general reader.

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Lists errata in Earthworms, which he is translating.

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JVC has been asked by Schweizerbart [CD’s German publisher] to revise H. G. Bronn’s translation of Origin, and he will be pleased to try to do it.

Asks CD’s advice on what to do about Bronn’s notes and concluding chapter, with which JVC disagrees. Would CD agree to omission?