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Asks FD to come early to write from dictation.

Thanks Amy for her drawing of Utricularia montana.

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Thanks Howitt for his offer of information from Australia and suggests that Howitt keep detailed notes for a future publication.

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Sends MS intended some day for the Viola tricolor section of Cross and self-fertilisation [pp. 123–8] to be used by JL in his British wild flowers (1875).

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Discusses belief in immortality and a personal God.

Describes his holiday in Southampton.

Comments on papers of John Wesley Judd.

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Thanks for the Pinguicula leaves, from which he has picked off sixteen seeds.

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Lady Dorothy Nevill has no Dionaea.

CD anxious to talk with JDH about Utricularia.

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Should like to borrow again a volume which he returned in error. Requests The Quarterly Magazine of the High Wycombe Natural History Society for 1867 and 1868 to locate paper on Utricularia.

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Describes his observations on Utricularia montana.

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Asks JDH to cut a bit of root from old Utricularia and bring it with him to Down.

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Thanks for 5th edition of his book [Natürliche] Schöpfungsgeschichte.

CD continues with his experiments on the digestive power of plants, which is much like that of mammals.

Is also preparing a revised edition of Descent.

Would welcome hearing more of his ideas about Pangenesis.

Postscript about Anthropogenie, which has just arrived. EH’s astonishing productivity.

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"Nature published last Thursday has not yet arrived."

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Head movements and their expressive significance. [P.S. explains letter was returned to CD because of a mistake in the address.]

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Thanks for sending papers by Hermann Hoffmann.

Discusses spiral cells in Drosera and Pinguicula.

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Discusses paper on volcanoes by J. W. Judd.

Comments on volcanoes of the S. American Cordillera.

Mentions paper by T. F. Jamieson ["Glacial period in N. Britain", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 30 (1874): 317–18].

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Comments on digestive action of pepsin and hydrochloric acid.

Photograph of Rubens’ picture has not arrived.

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JL’s two articles in Nature ["Common wild flowers", 10 (1874): 402–6, 422–6].

Cautions against C. K. Sprengel’s notion of bees’ being deceived by nectarless nectary.

Colour of calyces.

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Returns copy of Botanische Zeitung.

Responds to comments on Drosera.

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Thanks AHF for his book on ants of Switzerland;

recommends reading Thomas Belt’s Naturalist in Nicaragua [1874].

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Queries about species of Utricularia.

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The Aldrovanda has arrived. Has examined the leaves. It is an aquatic Dionaea which has acquired some structures identical to those of Utricularia!