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Is glad and proud to honour the memory of Adam Sedgwick [d. 1873].

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Sorry that his health prevents him attending a meeting to honour Adam Sedgwick.

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Thanks for CD’s regrets at AWB’s leaving Nature.

Plans English editions of Asa Gray’s books [How plants grow; How plants behave].

Other publication plans.

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Thanks for congratulations on appearance of abstract of HA’s paper [Nature 7 (1873): 343–4].

Explains again his theory of "contraction with twist" by which compact buds and a spiral phyllotaxy have evolved. Explains how the peculiar phyllotaxy of the teasel is explicable by this process of "condensation".

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CD’s notice in Nature [Collected papers 2: 171–2] induces WP to send letters from correspondents recounting stories of a dog that learned to open a door and of another that found his way home from London to Cowes.

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CD has discovered correspondent intends to present a petition to the House of Commons on which CD’s is the sole signature. Asks that his name be erased unless other signatures are added.

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Two students express their gratitude and admiration.

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Does not understand TM’s views on sex and vitality.

Agrees no real "essences" in genera, only broken groups of species.

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Thanks WP for his accounts of sagacity of dogs. "I can believe almost anything about them."

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Compares sense of smell in dogs and cats.

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Responds to AN’s observations on sense of smell in cats and dogs.

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Sends £10 subscription for James Murie.

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An admirer sends clipping from Bremen newspaper on hybrid between orange and lemon.

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Describes his critique of natural selection [Die Lehre Darwins kritisch betrachtet (1871)].

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Gives some information on variation of ocelli between sexes in butterfly species.

Proposes publishing a series of papers on mimicry.

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H. W. Bates says CD is in town. WWR would like to call.

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Thanks RM for note on ocelli.

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Discusses expression among the Chinese. Reports certain physical characters and the practice of certain unusual customs.

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Thanks for Indian [Medical] Gazette. Comments on article.

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Has read several of CD’s books; is curious about his remarks on "movements which are no longer useful but still inherited". Asks CD’s opinion on why people still swing arms with opposite leg in walking.