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Is obliged for addressee’s courteous note and is indifferent to how his name is used.

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Orders a copy of Dassen 1837, Onderzoek aangaande de bladbewegingen (research on leaf movements), published in Tijdschrift voor Natuurlijke Geschiedenis en Physiologie IV p. 106.

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Invites FG to visit.

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Thanks for JWS’s updatings to his Darwinian bibliography and regrets he is a poor German scholar.

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Thanks JF for copy of Cosmic philosophy [1874].

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Thanks JM for granting his request. Will write to D. Appleton.

CD is sorry about heavy loss from Expression; still thinks the book will sell in the course of years.

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Mainly family news.

Eager to read GHD’s political economy MS "though Heaven knows whether I shall understand it".

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Has just had printed a new edition of Descent [1874] and is anxious that this improved version be circulated in America.

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Thanks WJB for his reference [see 9691]. Is curious fact that the humble bees did not use the pollen, but the hive bees did.

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Will send Alexis Giraud-Teulon’s book [Origines de la famille (1874)], which he has received but not read, if JFM cares to read it.

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Responds to the correspondent's comments on natural selection.

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Must resign because of his health.

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Thanks FTK for telling him of Jahn’s work [see 9719], of which CD had not heard. It would have been of greatest use in writing Descent.

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Sends Murray’s report of November sales of CD’s books. "I am well content."

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CD thanks LN for his book [Die Welt als Entwicklung des Geistes], which he hopes to read soon, but his poor German hampers him.

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Thanks JVC for a correction to 2d English edition of Descent, which is now finished. 1350 copies were sold at Murray’s sale.

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Asks for specimen of Aldrovanda for book on insect-eating plants.

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Extremely glad to have JDH come to Down. It is wise of JDH to exert himself and face the inevitable as well as he can. [Death of JDH’s wife, 13 Nov.]

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Testimonial stating CD’s opinion of RBS’s fitness for a higher post at the British Museum.

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LD’s letter recalled old scenes on board the Beagle.

CD’s "bothering correspondents" seem to increase in number and in folly; has just answered "two precious fools".

Has been working very hard on Droseraceae and can "now see daylight".