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Sends family news;

describes what remains of his "menagerie" and tells of his interest in the framework of his son’s German badger-hound.

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Astonished at circular and will risk revolutions to invest. Describes Blidah, Algeria.

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Thanks CD [for his increased allowance?].

Writes of his tour [in Algeria].

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CD elected an honorary member of the New York Academy of Sciences.

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Has read Krause’s "Life of Erasmus Darwin" [Kosmos 4 (1879): 397–424]; thinks it very interesting to anyone interested in "Darwinismus" – everybody.

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Asks CD about translation of title-page of Kosmos.

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Is reading Origin on inheritance. Reports case of a man who went bald through illness, whose three sons, all born later, also became bald.

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Suggests CD send Kosmos to W. S. Dallas as Krause will surely give his permission for translation.

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Glad CD is pleased by his "Erasmus Darwin". Was not able to obtain book by Anna Seward [Memoirs of the life of Dr Darwin (1804)]. Could CD check relevant passages for errors? Would be great honour if CD could arrange English translation. Wants to enlarge essay into book.

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Report of wild ass crossed with tame one in India.

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Returns to CD a corrected proof [of "Fritz Müller on a frog having eggs on its back", Nature 19 (1878–9): 462–4].

Discusses adaptations of the pupae of, and Fritz Müller’s work on, Trichoptera.

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Sends suggestions for CD’s preface to Erasmus Darwin.

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Offers to translate [E. Krause’s] "Erasmus Darwin" for £10.

Thanks CD for signing his certificate for the Royal Society.

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Repeats his willingness to translate E. Krause’s "Erasmus Darwin".

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Urges Frank to reconsider his refusal of Cambridge Examinership.

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Asks if CD would like to subscribe to a reprint of Edward Blyth’s Field articles on cranes.

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Had doubts about excerpt from Anna Seward’s book [Life of Dr Darwin]. Sends slightly enlarged version of his "Erasmus Darwin". Includes footnote denouncing Seward’s book.

Finds that part 2 of ED’s Botanic garden, 2d ed. (1790), appeared before part 1 (1791).

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Thanks for sketch of Erasmus Darwin by John Dowson [see Erasmus Darwin, p. iv]; would like to incorporate this information into MS. Previous biographers of Erasmus Darwin had insufficient knowledge of what appeared in his works.

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Sends his photograph as requested.

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Cattle and sheep varieties removed from their native soils degenerate rapidly.