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Encloses some notes on maize that may be useful.

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Thanks AE for his book [Estudios sobre la flora y fauna de Venezuela (1877)].

Asks whether glaucous plants in Venezuela are more common in drier areas.

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In London and wishes to meet JDH.

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Invites CD to Kew.

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He has obtained further evidence that rats gnaw through lead pipes for water. CD’s opinion that they hear trickling confirms his view that they possess reason.

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Sends quotations on Dionaea and Sarracenia. [See Insectivorous plants, 2d ed., pp. 243, 366.]

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Insectivorous plants.

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A "dog fancier" and newspaper critic of dog shows, HD seeks CD’s opinion on the origin, cause, and use of "dew claws".

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CD will call on Tuesday morning.

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Thanks for kind note, would like to meet him.

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Thanks for AG’s review of Forms of flowers [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 15 (1878): 67–73].

Thomas Carlyle’s letter about CD was a forgery.

Gives Hermann Müller’s observations on Valeriana dioica.

Is unsure about function of "bloom"; are glaucous plants more or less common in arid parts of U. S.?

Observations on heliotropism.

Thomas Meehan reports that Linum perenne is self-fertile; CD thinks that he has mistaken the species.

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Thanks WP for election [as honorary member of the Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Gessellschaft zu Jena].

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Returns Kosmos.

Thanks CD for permission to use Fritz Müller’s last letter, which contains new observations.

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Offers observations on pollination.

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Has been reading Samuel Haughton on geological time ["Notes on physical geology, no. III", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1877): 534–46]. It is utter rubbish. Asks whether CD thinks GHD should write a critical note on the subject [see Nature 17 (1878): 509–10].

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Asks for subscription for A. H. Everett’s cave explorations in Borneo.

Is sure CD is pleased with Albert Gaudry’s new book [Les enchaînements du monde animal dans les temps géologiques (1878)].

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Is using CD’s correspondence with Chauncey Wright in his book on CW [Letters of Chauncey Wright (1878)].

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Information on Cyclamen and other plants.

Identification of some plants.

"Bloom".

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Happy to subscribe to A. H. Everett’s expedition to the caves of Borneo.

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Thanks for WTT-D’s help.

Burying action of seeds.

"Bloom" on ferns.