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Writes as Treasurer of the Down Friendly Society; discusses financial matters related to the Society.

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CD does not feel a subscription could be got up to aid correspondent. Sends a cheque for £10.

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‘The pigs-foot has been dispatched to day per Rail.’

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Some years ago he would have been delighted to take up the Cirripedia collected on the Challenger expedition, but feels that the subject has largely passed out of his mind.

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Pigeons’ skins dispatched today.

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Sends MS about pigeons.

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Thanks GK for the seeds of the Melastomaceae

and skins of the pigeons,

and forwards a note to Dr Scully.

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Is printing a book on dimorphic plants [Forms of flowers] in which he will make considerable use of FM’s work.

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"I have always been inclined to think that sparrows were acute & crafty birds, but you certainly show that they are Fools, & if they go on behaving in so idiotic a manner, you will do quite right to expose their conduct in some public Journal!--"

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Requests observations on sensitive Mimosa and movements of plants in rain.

Worm-castings.

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Received Moritz Wagner’s essays [Das Ausland (May 1875)] and sent him a long letter [10643] disagreeing with his views because they do not explain adaptation.

Thanks for Büchner’s essay [Die Darwin’sche Theorie, 4th ed. (1876)].

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Stripes on animals curious subject for investigation. Not likely to take it up again.

Recommends cutting plant stems under water.

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Will be delighted to see WHF on 26th.

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Thanks him for the 9th Report [on the noxious, beneficial, and other insects of the State of Missouri]. "What a pretty illustration of a sub-rudimentary organ is that of the saw-fly!"

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CD is gratified that GCR thinks "Sketch of an infant" [Collected papers 2: 191–200] worth publishing. Returns corrected proofs. Assures GCR he took pains to observe carefully.

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Acknowledges election to the Society.

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Thanks him for book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].

Comments on dispute over spontaneous generation.

The Council [of the Royal Society] will not print Frank Darwin’s paper on Dipsacus [in Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond.].

Mentions GJR’s grafting experiments

and his investigation of spiritualism.

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Sends a contribution [£10] to CHD’s fundraising.

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CD has again become interested in "bloom" on plants; requests JDH’s help with seeds and plants.

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Discusses Francis Darwin’s paper on teasel [Dipsacus].

Comments on GJR’s investigation of spiritualism.

Comments on book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].

Invites him to visit