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Thanks BDW for pamphlets [by S. H. Scudder and J. D. Caton].

His information about Cicada is of extraordinary interest. Discusses stridulation organs which certainly sometimes differ in the sexes. CD would be curious to know if "dumb" Cicada can breed.

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Discusses the top-knot turkey and the occasional appearance of the top-knot in a breed of cream-coloured turkeys.

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Lost copy of Variation sent to B. D. Walsh has been traced as far as New York.

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On their differences concerning sexual selection and protection.

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Sends an ear of wheat that has an oat kernel growing on it.

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Sends two papers; glad CD appreciates two he has already sent. Cannot send two others on glaciers (Philosophical Magazine, 1866 and 1867).

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Discusses GdeS’s studies on fossil plants;

response to Origin in France.

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Thanks CWN for specimen. CD has sent it to Hooker for examination.

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Sends an ear of wheat with two florets of oats growing out of it. Expects it will all turn out a humbug.

Berkeley’s address in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1868): 920, also Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): 83–7] praises CD tremendously.

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Asks him to thank E. L. Layard for trouble taken.

Says Zoological Society "very foolishly" wants no specimens of domestic varieties [from Ceylon].

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The wheat and oat specimen has been examined "in congress" by Oliver, Bentham, Asa Gray, and JDH. No organic connection of any kind.

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The election of 1868.

Remarkable deflection of the plummet observed east of Forres.

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Sends some answers to CD’s queries on expression, based on his observations of Abyssinians.

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Informs CD of K. G. Semper’s desire to meet him and to discuss new information on volcanic phenomena, geographical distribution, etc.

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CD’s doctrines apply to man’s mental organisation, but the soul is a different matter. Cites Dean Henry Alford, M. J. Berkeley, and Prof. [J. F.?] Ferrier.

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Asks CD to sign enclosed certificate first, as he does not know T. H. Farrer personally. [On top part of first two pages of a letter to Hooker from H. C. Rothery about Farrer’s nomination for Linnean Society]

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Sends a bill he thinks is Caroline’s.

Tells CD of officers’ praise of Leonard.

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Sends a paper he has written [on scarlet runner].

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Comments on THF’s MS [on fertilisation of scarlet runners]. Suggests publication, though CD anticipated main features ten years before. Is amused at the caution with which THF put his case that the final end [of the contrivances] was crossing distinct individuals.

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Encouraged by CD’s reply. Sends another paper, on blue Lobelia.

Asks advice on books.