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Requests hydrated magnesia.

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Discusses variation and selection in Harz canaries.

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Asks for Cassia plants.

What books could CD give R. I. Lynch to show his gratitude?

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Offers to experiment on the digestibility of chondrin and chlorophyll by Dionaea for CD.

Has noticed that painters depicting complex expressions give different expressions to the two sides of the face.

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Is interested in comparative nutritive values of chondrin and gelatin. The former seems to excite Drosera more, though albumen does so to a higher degree than either. Also asks if chlorophyll is digested by animals; Drosera digests it hardly at all.

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A letter from Anton Dohrn declines the proposed fund [that THH and others suggested be raised in England for marine biological station at Naples].

Hooker’s inaugural as President of Royal Society a success.

R. Owen distinguished himself in his way.

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Thanks RF for his kind note; cannot quite believe or disbelieve stories of children raised by wolves.

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Wishes to identify a species of Cassia whose movements interest him.

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On the vermiform appendix,

snipes breeding in England,

and the horns of crossbred sheep.

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Sorry to hear of Dohrn’s troubles. Has written to prospective donors saying that nothing can be done because of attitude of Dohrn’s father.

New [2d] edition of Descent is an awful job.

Diet no longer doing much for his health.

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Movement in plants.

Information on species of Cassia.

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Illustrates, with reference to different species of Gasteria, the role of twisting in the development of leaf arrangement.

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Sends observations from a friend in India confirming CD’s view that bees cut the tubes of flowers to extract [nectar] in order to save time.

Also observations on snails descending from trees on threads suspended from their tails.

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The case of the bees interests CD. He does not doubt that because of the size of their jaws humble-bees will be found all over the world to be the biters and hive-bees to profit from their work.

Thinks he has heard of land shells descending in the manner described by RS.

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Obliged for letter about horns of sheep.

Mentions case of death from objects impacted in appendix.

Is aware of his error about snipe breeding.

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Thanks FdeC for his note and invites criticisms.

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Formal note enclosing five guineas for William Pengelly testimonial fund.

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Suggests that his Coral reefs be republished.

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Thanks CD for book.

Mentions controversy involving Haeckel.

Describes his lectures on Darwinism.

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Discusses speech of parrots and starling. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 85 n.]