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Requests permission to quote Journal of researches passages in a school text-book [Relfe Brothers model reading-books … in prose and verse (1880–3)]. John Murray has previously refused.

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Thanks CD for writing to Murray concerning Journal of researches extracts for his reading-book.

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Suggests plants whose stamens show movement.

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JT attempting to get Government backing for his experiments; wishes to quote from CD’s letter in support of his work.

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Annual report on sale of Reinwald editions of CD’s works.

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Information about the death of John Scott, his nephew.

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Learning by experience of others: birds being killed by telegraph wires when first set up; sheep in Australia eating poisonous plants.

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Asks whether CD will forward enclosed to Lord Derby, and offers to send him a copy of the New York state survey. Will go to Beaulieu in the early autumn. Tells story about gallenes raised by hens being attacked.

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Printed circular from the committee to set up a monument to Lazzaro Spallanzani in Scandiano.

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Unable to acquire pure trypsin. W. F. Kühne is probably the only man who had it. Will send an almost pure sample out of which A. S. Lea makes pancreatic ferment.

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Confirmation of CD’s idea: AG planted seeds Ipomœa pandurata. One seed has come up and its germination is same as of I. leptophylla.

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Thanks for mentioning CarlVogt, to whom he will write.

Comments on Dr Erasmus Darwin’s interest in mental imagery.

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Details about tithes.

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The article [Francis Darwin, "Climbing plants"] has appeared in Popular Science Review [n.s. 4 (1880): 213–29].

Asks CD to allow John [Richard de Capel] Wise to dedicate a poem to him.

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The Birmingham Philosophical Society wishes to establish a Darwin prize medal for original scientific work. A fund is being raised to support research. Asks CD to contribute.

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Wishes to publish CD’s explanation of positions of stones in certain gravelly drifts in a forthcoming book [Prehistoric Europe (1881)].

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Gives history of the Union; explains plan to encourage original work by offering an annual "Darwin Prize". Asks CD’s permission to use his name.

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Thanks for permission to use CD’s letter.

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No significant reviews of Erasmus Darwin have appeared yet in Germany.

Sends response from a theological opponent.

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Asks CD’s advice on how to answer a letter requesting his endorsement of Wrigley, his former teacher at Clapham School.