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Objects to the passage about the Irish quoted by CD in Descent [1: 174].

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Notes and extracts relating to "bloom".

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Forwards letters.

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Notes on variation and selection; discussion of how selection could act to the advantage of a group but not to that of an individual within the group.

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Sends extract abusing CD, from a sermon by a Greek priest.

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Encloses a memorandum [missing] drawn up by W. H. Flower, Huxley, and himself, defending Charles Wyville Thomson against an attack made upon him.

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Wants to subpoena CD in a case pending against himself and Annie Besant, to be tried 18 June. [Bradlaugh and Besant were indicted for issuing an "obscene libel".]

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Sends MS notes on intercrossing.

Describes different reactions of rabbits and guinea-pigs to stinging nettles.

Has made a number of grafts at Kew.

Encloses notes on natural selection; discussion of factors mitigating the swamping influence of intercrossing on incipient variations.

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Sends holly specimens.

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All young intelligent French naturalists support CD. But the professors are afraid of being called materialists, atheists, or communists.

A paper of his ["Sur l’origine paléontologique", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 84 (1877): 534–7] met with silence, except from Bureau. If only France had become Protestant!

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Has two young friends who wish to call on CD.

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Lists the tasks he has completed; sends on letter from Romanes; news of Bernard.

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Cites a misprint in Orchids.

Asks how long Forms of flowers will be, and publication date.

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Forwards a copy of his book Diseases of women [1877].

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JDH has to entertain the Emperor of Brazil [Pedro II], who wants to meet CD.

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JDH finds the Emperor, once an energetic man, all used up.

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Galton agrees with GJR about rudimentary organs.

GJR’s note referred to possibility of selection acting on organic types as distinguished from individuals.

Thinks Grant Allen has not made out his point [in Physiological aesthetics (1877)], but his fundamental principle probably has much truth.

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JDH recounts circumstances of his receiving Star of India (K.C.S.I.).

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Asks if phosphoric acid could have killed Drosera he received in a matchbox.

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Notes on the position of one of the fallen stones [at Stonehenge].