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Invites correspondent to luncheon on Friday or Saturday.

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Sends compliments and thanks.

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Invites WO to lunch.

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Regrets the trouble GHD has had.

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Farrer has taken the case to Northcote. JDH’s letter will show how overworked he is.

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Appleton will bring out the new edition of Descent in the U. S., so GHD’s work will now be in three editions.

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Invites TB to visit. Wants to make his acquaintance.

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Returns historical sketch [of GHD’s "cousin paper"?] with comments. "For Heavens sake put a sentence in some conspicuous place that your results seem to indicate that consanguineous marriage, as far as insanity is concerned, cannot be injurious in any very high degree."

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Speaks of visiting GJR at the Brown Institution.

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Praises JF’s book [Cosmic philosophy (1874)].

Has long wished to understand H. Spencer but is not convinced by him and some others. CD cannot trust deduction from a starting principle, as his mind is so fixed by the inductive method.

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Thanks for the essay on a curious new cirripede. He will not accept the offer of microscopical preparations.

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Invites GJR to visit.

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Thanks for translation of his Journal of researches. Is pleased by its appearance.

Also thank Edmond Barbier for his kind words. [See 9752.]

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Thanks for work on Lacerta muralis coerulea [Zoologische Studien auf Capri 2 (1874)].

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Thanks JDH for his and Huxley’s countering of the false attack on George [Darwin] by Mivart. Encloses a note to Mivart on which he asks JDH’s opinion.

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Sends a suggested title [for Insectivorous plants?].

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Asks StGJM to confirm that he is the author of the article on Tylor and Lubbock ["Primitive man", Q. Rev. 137 (1874): 40–77] in which an attack was made on George Darwin.

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Asks JL to send ten shillings for the Down Friendly Club.

Has just read JL’s paper on bees and wasps [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 110–39]. Is astonished by their stupidity. The experiments on colour are especially good. Suggests JL examine their retinas; sends enclosure [missing] on eyes of reptiles and birds.

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Thanks GJR for copy of his book [Christian prayer and general laws (1874)].

Discusses breeding and sterility.

Discusses experiments to test Pangenesis. Cites useful references.

Suggests GJR visit Kew gardens.

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Asks four favours: sort out confusion about the name Byblis gigantea or grandiflora; can he see dried specimens of Genlisea ornata; is there a more recent list of Drosera spp. than Steudel 1841; are there at Kew any dried specimens of Utricularia montana collected from the plant’s native haunts.