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Has read CD’s queries in the Field regarding the markings of dun-coloured horses. JS has for some years been working on and observing the occurrence of ass-like striped markings in horses and wonders whether CD received any response to his queries.

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Sends references to books by Charles Lebrun.

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Sends cheque for Down charities.

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Has adopted CD’s plan of giving every author’s name in index [of Variation], but it causes delay.

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Extract from a sermon.

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Sends copy of book containing measurements taken of individuals of different races during voyage of Novara [Karl Heinrich von Scherzer, ed., Reise der Fregatte "Novara", Anthropologischer Theil (1867)].

Asks for scientific advice concerning newly planned expedition.

Says Carl Vogt plans to use data from book in lectures.

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Thanks for skins and skeletons.

Has been arranging sponges [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1867): 495–558].

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Thanks CD for £200 and discusses meeting in London at the beginning of December.

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First volume of Variation has been translated. He does not support CD’s suggestion that the two volumes might be published separately.

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Writes, as editor of the Intellectual Observer, saying how much he would like to be able to publish papers by CD.

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Pleased by CD’s letter; his object was to apply CD’s principles to the reform of zoology. When this is done, it is wonderful to see how improved one’s understanding of the Crustacea (Arthropoda) becomes. Cites examples.

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Seeks CD’s opinion and references on the causes of terraces in the south of England. He supports sea action as cause, either by currents or on coasts, and has been engaged in a controversy in the Geological Magazine [4 (1867): 571–5] with the subaerial school. Poulett Scrope thinks they are agricultural.

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A sermon.

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JvH forwards J. Stack’s replies to CD’s queries about expression [see Expression, p. 20].

Sends photos of skeletons of six species of Dinornis he is assembling for the Museum.

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Will have to delay starting on the bust of CD.

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Wants to catch some queen bees to ship to Australia; wonders whether CD’s sons can help.

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Thanks CD for information on inclined terraces in S. America, which DM thinks applies to the chalk downs of S. England. CD’s definition that the sea widens and fresh water deepens is key to the subject.

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Some corrections and queries about Variation text. Is pushing hard to finish, but CD is right that the names in the notes make the work interminable. Fears he is causing delay in publication. Is astonished at "the wonderful array of facts brought together and at the manner in which you bring them to bear".

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Introduction of humble-bees into Australia.

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The horns and spines of homopterous insects do not vary between sexes. Sexual differences in Blattidae.