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Sends CD a ptarmigan.

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The rabbits arrived safely.

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Wishes to have CD’s autograph.

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Has frequently defended evolution and natural selection among his clergy brethren.

Now elicits CD’s views on chance.

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Praise of CD. Acknowledges his indebtedness to CD for defining the subject of plant fecundation.

Expecting CD’s work on the effects of cross-fertilisation.

CD has put him in touch with George Bentham.

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Reply to CD’s letter of 5 Apr 1871 [7659], in which he asked HA for further details on when and how platysma myoides contracts.

Replies to CD’s questions about sources on leaf arrangement.

Gives news of speech and paper about CD.

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Announces that the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris has elected CD a Foreign Associate.

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Maoris of New Zealand admire beards, contrary to statement in Descent [2: 349].

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Thanks for letter and reference to Nägeli’s observations on leaf arrangement in the bud.

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Pleased to hear from CD. Sends more facts about the life and habits of the inhabitants of the Seychelles.

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Cannot come to lunch to meet Sir Henry Holland. Holland may have seen Robert Lowe [Lord Sherbrooke] already. Will CD let him know his views?

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Comments on Die Kalkschwämme [1872].

A Franciscan prior, Padre Buona-Grazia, agrees with human descent.

His trip to Dalmatia.

German reception of Descent.

Mentions current work.

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Philosophical Club dinner.

Lyell contradicts W. B. Carpenter on current in Straits of Gibraltar.

James Orton’s report on fossil shells found by L. Agassiz 2000 miles up the Amazon. Their identification disposes of the glacial hypothesis.

No news yet from Gladstone on Ayrton affair.

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Encloses "account of Dr H. M. Butler’s hereditary odd habit".

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Sends a paper on denudation ["On modern denudation", Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasgow 3 (1871): 153–90].

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Sends description and measurements of the 18th century courtyard pavement of his house, the stones of which have sunk as a result of earthworm action [see Earthworms, pp. 192–3].

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Sends three sheets but keeps one. Suggests looking at a curved field on the way to Orpington.

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Action of earthworms and weather on surface soil of old earthworks and fortifications.

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Varying depth of top-soil in a ridge-and-furrow field with a depression.

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After reading Descent sends two instances of men and animals using the same muscles to express similar emotional states.