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Feels it would be worth while but difficult to investigate mimicked and mimicking forms for structural similarities that would indicate a closer alliance in the past.

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Endorses revised statement about Butler’s odd hereditary habit;

describes a séance at William Crookes’s.

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Comments on action of eyes in a person lost in meditation. Asks about Charles Bell’s explanation [in Anatomy of expression (1806, 1844)].

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Comments on FG’s description of a séance at the house of William Crookes.

Will use FG’s words about [H. M. Butler’s] hereditary habit [in Expression, p. 33 n. 8].

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Sends two vines for CD’s experiments, with instructions for grafting.

Mentions a hybrid plum–peach.

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Data relating to experiments; shrinkage of earth on drying.

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Would like to do Russian translation of Expression.

May come to England.

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Has forwarded CD’s letter to Crookes.

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Requests letter recommending him for the Chair of General and Comparative Physiology at the Royal Veterinary College.

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Asks BR to make two drawings of dogs to show expressions. Discusses expressions of hostile dog and caressing dog.

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His analysis and explanation of the fact, observed by Charles Bell, that the eyeballs are turned upwards and inwards when consciousness begins to fail.

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Thanks for "Literatur & Tables zur Descendenz Theorie" [check title!?] taken from his Die Darwin’sche Theorie [1871], which CD had read with gratification some time before.

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Testimonial letter. JM would be well fitted for the Chair of General and Comparative Physiology of the Royal Veterinary College.

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Thanks for vines and for all the information given him. Fears experiment will be more difficult than he had expected.

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Thanks for sending translation of A. W. Malm’s paper ["On flatfishes", K. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. N. F. 7 (1867–8) no. 4]; thinks it establishes that eye migrates across surface of head rather than through the skull.

Considers the relationship between direction of locomotion and the presence of stalked eyes in Crustacea.

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Encloses a letter from Mr Moran, conveyed by Mr Lawrence.

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Will attempt to draw the two expressions CD wants.

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Sends preface of his book [see 8241]; he acknowledges debt to CD, but does not claim to have given a correct exposition of Darwinism.

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Discusses Mivart’s reply ["Genesis of species", North Am. Rev. 114 (1872): 451–68] to CW’s review and to Huxley.

Asks whether CD knows anyone to whom he could usefully send a copy of his phyllotaxy paper [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415].

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Thanks for kindness. BR must not think of trying until he feels inclination and strength for task.