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Thanks correspondent for the copies of his engraving. "The work seems to be, though I cannot pretend to be a judge, a vy fine production".

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Orders a sheet of gold-beater’s skin for plant experiments.

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Discusses A. B. Frank’s views [Beiträge zur Pflanzenphysiologie (1868)] on how plants position themselves; differences and similarities compared with their own conclusions.

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Thanks AG for his kind note and returns his good wishes.

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Fears that the promised bottle of pure water may have been despatched or stolen in passage. [See 11768a.]

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G[eorge] has visited A[nthony] R[ich] at Worthing.

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Suggests MJ does not worry about the differences in opinion between ecclesiastics and scientists.

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Thanks CHB for his anecdote about a provincial girl’s reaction to being told men descended from monkeys.

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Thanks for essay on origin of taste for music. Will send to Edmund Gurney.

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Asks MN about trustworthiness of Leopold Würtenberger. Would like to aid LW financially in his work.

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Is sorry that LW’s circumstances interfere with his scientific work. Does not think any English scientific society can help.

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Notes advertisement of Tito Vignoli, Fundamentalgesetz der Intelligenz im Thierreiche [1879].

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Has read Hume with great pleasure, but found parts very stiff reading.

George Darwin has visited Anthony Rich.

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Thanks GdeS for his photograph; sends his own. Glad to hear GdeS’s work [Le monde des plantes (1879)] is popular in France.

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Sends the Fritz Müller article from Kosmos.

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Thanks for HNM’s [Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger" (1879)].

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Acknowledges receipt of diploma.

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Has told John Lubbock how highly he thinks of HNM’s work, and has heard that HMN’s claims will be fully considered.

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Has offered Leopold Würtenberger money to aid in his work.

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Movements in Oxalis.