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"Frank has sent the cards here."

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Thanks for ESM’s address ["What American zoologists have done for evolution", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 25 (1876)].

J. A. Allen’s work is important as apparently showing change through direct action of [external] conditions.

CD has given up trying to understand E. D. Cope and Alpheus Hyatt on acceleration and retardation.

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Discusses locks and window-fastenings, which CD has discovered are not included in the contract for alterations to the house at Down, and a cornice in a passage-way..

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CD has sent the pig’s foot to William Henry Flower to examine.

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CD submits his paper ["A biographical sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200] for possible publication.

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Thanks for GOS’s memoir on Brisinga [1875].

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Is honoured by CGS’s dedication [see 10942].

His observation of the dorsal eyes of Onchidium is interesting and surprising.

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Thanks for a copy of VC’s Théorie du Fatalisme (Theory of fatalism; Conta 1877).

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Has not yet heard from Cambridge. Thinks perhaps they do not intend to give him the degree.

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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.