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Wollaston’s situation hopeless; he must go to Boulogne or Jersey to live. A friend will keep his collection and books together.

JDH’s opinion of Wollaston’s Coleoptera Hesperidum [1867].

Cannot read Duke of Argyll.

CD’s view of Asa Gray as foreign member of Royal Society; compares him to Candolle.

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Queries concerned with translating vol. 2 of Variation.

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Thanks CD for present [of Variation].

Congratulates CD on success of his son George in mathematical tripos.

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Gives his speculative thoughts on geographical, political, and biological factors in the origin and development of human races.

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Thanks for Variation. Expects to be made more ashamed by his ignorance of the "influence of inheritance on the variations and mixtures of disease".

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Congratulations on George’s attaining Second Wrangler.

Variation has just arrived. Wishes he had two heads or a body that needed no rest.

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Many thanks for the book [Variation].

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Congratulates CD on son’s [George’s] distinction [Second Wrangler] at Cambridge.

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Thanks CD for sending him Variation and for honouring his name by its frequent mention in the work.

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Congratulations on George Darwin’s performance at Cambridge.

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Thanks for copy of CD’s latest book [Variation].

European converts to CD’s theory.

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Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge

and CD’s world-wide reputation.

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Notes on the taxonomy of Primula.

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On the proportion of sexes in crabs; coloration and structural differences.

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Corrections [incorporated in 2d issue of Variation].

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Amazed that Hugo von Mohl and E. M. Fries are not foreign members of Royal Society; Thomson going over the whole matter.

Candolle’s contribution to botany.

Lubbock shocked about Wollaston.

CD’s answer to Greg was capital.

Comments on Variation.

Charles Murchison’s work on Falconer’s Memoirs [Palaeontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer (1868)] and JDH on Falconer.

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Thanks CD for the gift of his new work [Variation].

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His Majesty the King of Prussia has conferred upon CD the Order, Pour le Mérite, for Sciences and Arts.

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Congratulates [G. H. Darwin] on being Second Wrangler.

Thanks CD for Variation.

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Sends some Australian boiled beef for CD to sample.

Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge.